Chapter 2. Reactions to jab lines in conversational storytelling

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Rania Karachaliou ◽  
Argiris Archakis
Keyword(s):  
Conversational Storytelling

Aggression in conversational storytelling performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal R. Norrick
Keyword(s):  
Story Content ◽  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Conversational Narrative ◽  
Narrative Performance

This article explores the forms and functions of aggression in conversational narrative performance based on a range of corpora representing a wide variety of storytelling types, speakers and contexts. The primary teller of a conversational narrative may report aggression and hostility in story content, while storytelling also provides a forum for the expression of aggression by all participants toward features of story content. Moreover, recipients and co-tellers may display antagonism toward the primary teller, including contradiction, correction, finding fault with the telling performance and direct assault on the teller as well as denying the relevance of the story. The interaction of aggression with humor in conversational storytelling will be investigated to round out the picture.

scholarly journals Conversational Storytelling in Chinese Speech Acts

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Shuling Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Conversational Narrative ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Face

Conversational narrative or storytelling is a prevalent activity in everyday talk. This paper, drawing on the speech act theory and conversational analysis methodology, examines the conversational storytelling in performing a few types of illocutionary acts like assert, warn, object, advise in Chinese everyday talk. It is found that storytelling plays several significant roles in performing some types of illocutionary acts, i.e. to make a point, to build rapport among friends and even to reduce the face threat. Conversational storytelling may occur immediately after the expression of an illocutionary act, and sometimes before it to indicate certain illocutionary force.   

How to distinguish hypothetical from actual speech in fiction

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Karttunen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Markers ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Source Tracking ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Junot Diaz ◽  
Carol Shields ◽  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
Speech Representation ◽  
Actual Speech

This paper investigates the connection between counterfactuality and stereotypicality in direct speech representation. In Monika Fludernik’s theory of schematic language representation, quotations typify rather than reproduce, and typicality coincides with stereotypical expressivity in the form discourse particles, among other features. By distinguishing hypothetical speech proper from the more general concept of typifying direct speech, we can see that in fiction hypothetical speech is not always stereotypically expressive. In conversational storytelling, discourse markers serve the functions of source-tracking, emplotment, and expressing the quoter’s emotions and evaluation. I discuss reasons why fiction differs from conversational storytelling in this respect. Fludernik’s treatment of discourse markers or ‘typicality markers’ in direct speech representation is here complemented with Bakhtinian notions of dual expressiveness, speech genres, and the responsive quality of utterances. The arguments presented are illustrated by passages from the fiction of Carol Shields, Peter Bichsel, and Junot Díaz.

Verb tense organization as an interactional resource in conversational storytelling

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 293-330
Author(s):  
Roger W. Spielmann ◽  
Holly Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Verb Tense

scholarly journals Borrowed Voices: Conversational Storytelling in Midwifery Healthcare Visits

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela McKenzie ◽  
Philippa Spoel
Keyword(s):  
Clinic Visit ◽  
Structural Requirements ◽  
Conversational Storytelling ◽  
Mainstream Healthcare ◽  
Interactional Features ◽  
Clinic Visits

Midwifery in Ontario, Canada exists at the intersection of mainstream healthcare ideology and an alternative, woman-centred ideology of care. As a result, midwifery interaction is characterized by discursive hybridity. We trace this hybridity in the conversational stories co-narrated by midwives and clients during clinic visits. We show how conversational storytelling performs a complex shifting and blending of rhetorical forms and functions integral to the clinical interaction. Conversational stories conform to the structural requirements of the clinic visit and unfold in different ways and perform different functions at different times. Stories may be told, evaluated, and received as institutionally relevant for both clinical and social purposes. Clinical stories perform relational functions, and stories that appear to be fully social orient to the clinical agenda. Hybridity is accomplished through two forms of linguistic borrowing: the blending of professional-institutional and more casual-conversational modes, and interactional features such as shared narration and recontextualization.

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