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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      24 November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139051255
      9780521887168
      9780521715133
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051255
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

    Reviews

    ‘In a booming field perpetually in need of good and relevant syntheses, De Fina and Georgakopoulou's book is a landmark, and it will remain a benchmark as well.'

    Jan Blommaert - Tilburg University

    'Within a wide range of diverse perspectives, this book provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation on narrative analysis.'

    Ilker Yengin Source: Language and Dialogue

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