Conversational storytelling

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 127-141

  Norrick, Neal R ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CCOL0521856965.009     Document Type: Chapter

References (42)

1. William Labov and Joshua Waletzky's “Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience.” In June Helm (ed.) Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967), pp. 12-44. Charlotte Linde continues this tradition in Life Stories (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), whereas a number of scholars examine oral retellings of filmed events in Wallace Chafe (ed.) The Pear Stories (Norwood: Ablex, 1980).
2. Livia Polanyi, Telling the American Story (Norwood: Ablex, 1985).
3. Richard Bauman, Story, Performance, and Event (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
4. Shoshana Blum-Kulka,“‘You Gotta Know How to Tell a Story’: Telling, Tales, and Tellers in American and Israeli Narrative Events at Dinner.” Language in Society 22 (1993), pp. 361-402.
5. The name Labov, with no further specification, refers to the work of Labov and his co-workers, as described in: Labov and Waletzky, “Narrative Analysis”
6. William Labov, “The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax.” In Language in the Inner City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972), pp. 354-96
7. William Labov and David Fanshel, Therapeutic Discourse (New York: Academic Press, 1977).
8. According to methods described in Polanyi, Telling the American Story, pp. 26-33
9. Neal R. Norrick, Conversational Narrative (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000), pp. 29-38.
10. Nessa Wolfson, “The Conversational Historical Present in American English Narrative.” Topics in Socio-Linguistics 1 (Dordrecht: Foris, 1982)
11. Barbara Johnstone, “‘He says… so I said’: Verb Tense Alternation and Narrative Depictions of Authority in American English.” Linguistics 25 (1987), pp. 33-52
12. Joanna Thornborrow, “The Construction of Conflicting Accounts in Public Participation TV.” Language in Society 29 (2000), pp. 357-77.
13. Deborah Tannen, “Introducing Constructed Dialogue in Greek and American Conversational and Literary Narratives.” In Florian Coulmas (ed.) Direct and Indirect Speech (Berlin: Mouton, 1986), pp. 311-22
14. Patricia Mayes, “Quotation in Spoken English.” Studies in Language 14 (1990), pp. 323-63.
15. Labov, “The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax,” p. 37.
16. Labov and Fanshel, Therapeutic Discourse, pp. 62-4.
17. Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Catherine E. Snow, “Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events.” Journal of Narrative and Life History 2 (1992), pp. 187-217.
18. Neal R. Norrick, “Twice-told Tales: Collaborative Narration of Familiar Stories.” Language in Society 26 (1992), pp. 199-220.
19. Amy Shuman, Storytelling Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 29-38.
20. Livia Polanyi, “So What's the Point?” Semiotica 25 (1979), pp. 207-41.
21. Harvey Sacks, Lectures on Conversation, Vol. 2. Edited by Gail Jefferson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972), pp. 3-16.
22. Neal R. Norrick, “Humor, Tellability and Conarration in Conversation.” TEXT 24 (2004), pp. 79-111.
23. Elinor Ochs, Ruth Smith, and Carolyn Taylor, “Detective Stories at Dinnertime: Problem Solving through Co-narration.” Cultural Dynamics 2 (1989), pp. 238-57
24. Blum-Kulka, “‘You Gotta Know How to Tell a Story,’” pp. 374-83;
25. Blum-Kulka and Snow, “Developing Autonomy,” pp. 187-9.
26. John J. Gumperz, Discourse Strategies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 131-40.
27. Gail Jefferson, Harvey Sacks, and Emanuel Schegloff, “Notes on Laughter in the Pursuit of Intimacy.” In Graham Button and John R. E. Lee (eds.) Talk and Social Organisation (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1987), pp. 152-327.
28. Neal R. Norrick, “The Dark Side of Tellability.” Narrative Inquiry 15 (2005), pp. 323-43.
29. Michael Bamberg, “‘I know it may sound mean to say this, but we couldn’t really care less about her anyway’: Form and Functions of ‘Slut-bashing’ in 15-year Olds.” Human Development 47 (2004), pp. 331-53.
30. As described by Dell Hymes, Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974), pp. 52-3.
31. Marjorie H. Goodwin, “By-play: Negotiating Evaluation in Story-telling.” In Gregory R. Guy, John Baugh, Deborah Schiffrin, and Crawford Feagin (eds.) Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov, Vol. 2. (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1997), pp. 77-102.
32. Goodwin's account builds on Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Garden City: Anchor Books, 1959), pp. 174-86
33. “Footing” in Goffman's Forms of Talk (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981), pp. 124-57, on types of participation frameworks.
34. Neal R. Norrick, “Contextualizing and Recontextualizing Interlaced Stories in Conversation.” In Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates (eds.) The Sociolinguistics of Narrative (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2005), pp. 107-27.
35. As demonstrated by Deborah Tannen in “The Effect of Expectations on Conversation.” Discourse Processes 1 (1978), pp. 203-9.
36. Jane Falk, “The Conversational Duet.” Berkeley Linguistics Society: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting (1980), pp. 507-14.
37. Norrick, “Humor, Tellability and Conarration in Conversation,” pp. 99-104.
38. Norrick, “Contextualizing and Recontextualizing Interlaced Stories in Conversation,” pp. 107-10.
39. Tannen, “The Effect of Expectations on Conversation,” p. 261.
40. Wallace Chafe, “Things we Can Learn from Repeated Tellings of the Same Experience.” Narrative Inquiry 8 (1998), pp. 269-85
41. Neal R. Norrick, “Retelling Stories in Spontaneous Conversation.” Discourse Processes 25 (1998), pp. 75-97.
42. Bamberg, ‘“I know it may sound mean to say this, but we couldn’t really care less about her anyway,”’ pp. 332-5.