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Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling

Polanyi, Livia

Hardcover

Series: Language and Being

LinguisticsMythology & FolkloreGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0893910414
ISBN13: 9780893910419
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jan 1 1985
Pages: 172
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.

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