The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in the theory and practice of narrative analysis from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. They address some of the questions left implicit whenever stories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588116352
• ISBN13: 9781588116352
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 300 Pages