Narrative Performances: A Study of Modern Greek Storytelling

by Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556198086
• ISBN13: 9781556198083
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 282 Pages