In this artide it is argued that whether it is possible to teil the'same story'more than once
depends crucially both on one's definition of'story'and on one's idea of'the same'. According …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on story beginnings and endings. Stories emerge
from turn-by-turn talk, which is locally occasioned by it, and upon their completion, stories re …

There is a substantial body of literature on storytelling in a number of fields, including
Linguistics, Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication …

Remarkably consistent patterns of linguistic structuring are a surface feature of everyday oral
stories. In this paper, I concentrate on the types of information found in all story texts (Event …

What do we mean by a story? Recent usage has turned almost everything, even the non-
verbal, into a narrative. 2 For example, Ochs and Capps (1996) have a remarkably inclusive …

The word" narrativity" is a linguistic parvenu, the Anglo-Saxon ver-sion of a term which, in
one form or another, has only recently made it into various European languages. To be sure …

For the most part, people tell stories to do something-to complain, to boast, to inform, to alert,
to tease, to explain or excuse or justify, or to provide for an interactional environment in …

This study describes an Interactive methodfor assigning responsibility and shows how
proposing alternative versions of'reality'is part ofthat method. In the course of assigning …

The term" reported speech" is a misnomer. Examination of the lines of dialogue represented
in storytelling or conversation, and consideration of the powers of human memory, indicate …

ORDINARY CONVERSATION achieves coherence through linguistic features generally
regarded as quintessentially literary: use of, and repetition and variation of, rhythm; …