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Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life.

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal level...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schiffrin, Deborah
Otros Autores: De Fina, Anna, Nylund, Anastasia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history. In Telli.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (230 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781589016743
1589016742
1589016297
9781589016293