Storytelling Across Japanese Conversational Genre

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation narratives, television talk shows, survey interviews, and large university lectures focus on participation/participatory framework, topical coherence, involvement,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027226539
• ISBN13: 9789027226532
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 313 Pages