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Conversational storytelling among Japanese women : conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories /
This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories. Foc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Company,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in narrative ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Overview
- Storytelling and the social and conversational circumstances
- 1.2 Previous research
- 1.3 Three tasks of this book
- 1.3.1 Task 1: Examining the conversational circumstances
- 1.3.2 Task 2: Exploring tellability
- 1.3.3 Task 3: Interpreting the conversation in light of the social circumstances
- 1.4 Analysis
- 1.4.1 Analysis of conversational circumstances and the story teller's "groundwork"
- 1.4.2 Analysis of the prospective story recipients' interest in the teller's life
- 1.4.3 Analysis of the story recipients' understanding and involvement
- 1.4.4 Analysis of participants' lives in the storytelling
- 1.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Major concepts and conversational data for this study
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Previous research on organization of storytelling
- 2.2.1 Sequential aspect of storytelling
- 2.2.2 Participation in storytelling
- 2.2.3 Organization of storytelling in Japanese conversation
- 2.3 Previous research on social functions of storytelling
- 2.3.1 Interpersonal and social work throughout storytelling
- 2.3.2 Presentation of identity and self
- 2.4 Previous research on tellability of a story in conversational interaction
- 2.5 Conversational circumstances, social circumstances, and tellability of a story in this study
- 2.6 Conversational data
- Chapter 3. Story teller's groundwork to introduce a story
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Continuity/discontinuity of the story from the previous talk
- 3.3 Initial characterization
- 3.4 Story recipient's knowledge
- 3.5 Social appropriateness
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Confirmation request to create a ground
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The utterance of confirmation request.
- 4.3 Shifting topical focus and doing other jobs
- 4.3.1 Shifting topical focus
- 4.3.2 Hinting at the initial characterization of the story
- 4.3.3 Taking care of a delicate topic
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Story recipient's interest in the teller's life
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The stories triggered by the recipients' proffering the teller's topic
- 5.2.1 Proffering the teller's topic
- 5.2.2 Satisfying the recipient's potential interests: The story "I Ended Up Going to Canada with My Mother"
- 5.2.3 Moving away from the recipient's interest while searching an attraction: The story "A Surprising Meeting with a Retired Lady"
- 5.3 Showing interest in the teller's unusual conduct and the story teller's denying it
- 5.3.1 Revealing a hearsay and the teller's rejection of it: The story "I Just Went to a Study Group Meeting"
- 5.3.2 Showing surprise and the teller's telling a defensive story: The story "Santa Claus Costume"
- 5.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Story recipients' understanding of a story and the conversational circumstances
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Understanding the point of the story by referring to the previous talk: The story "You Sure Can Eat a Lot!"
- 6.3 Seeking the point of the story by referring to the previous talk: The story "I Heated a Glass Bowl"
- 6.4 Understanding the detached story by the teller's re-depiction: The story "Ms. Ueda and Mr. Hirai Bowed to Each Other"
- 6.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Story recipients' involvement in the storytelling and shared knowledge
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The recipients' verbal and nonverbal display of involvement
- 7.3 Showing involvement by repetition and laughter
- 7.3.1 Showing involvement by repeating the teller's phrases with laughter: The story "A Surprising Meeting with a Retired Lady."
- 7.3.2 Showing involvement by repeating a punch line phrase from the previous story: The story "A 'Happy Birthday' Song at a Restaurant"
- 7.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Participants' lives in the storytelling "The Undergraduate Student's Complaint"
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Overview of the storytelling "The Undergraduate Student's Complaint"
- 8.3 Analysis: The participants' participation and their management of responsibility
- 8.3.1 Eliciting and offering background information
- 8.3.2 Forming the story "The Undergraduate Student's Complaint" and displaying involvement
- 8.3.3 Offering follow-up information and raising a new issue
- 8.4 Discussion: Participants' roles in the community
- 8.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Storytelling and the conversational and social circumstances
- 9.3 The four elements for the story's tellability
- 9.4 The three tasks and findings
- 9.4.1 The story teller's "groundwork"
- Continuity/discontinuity of the story to the ongoing conversation
- Initial characterization
- Recipient's knowledge
- Social appropriateness
- Confirmation request
- 9.4.2 The story recipients' interest in the teller's life
- 9.4.3 The story recipients' understanding and involvement
- 9.4.4 The participants' lives in the storytelling
- 9.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Appendix A. Meetings and participants
- Appendix B. Stories in this book
- Appendix C. Transcription conventions
- Name index
- Subject index.