Narrative in English Conversation

A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

By:

Christoph Ruhlemann

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Studies in English Language

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Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.

Author Biography:

Christoph Rühlemann is a researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. He is the author of Conversation in Context (2007) and co-editor, with Karin Aijmer, of The Cambridge Handbook of Corpus Pragmatics (2015).

Release date Australia

January 9th, 2014

Author

Christoph Ruhlemann

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

30 Tables, black and white; 40 Line drawings, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, color

Pages

304

Series

Studies in English Language

Dimensions

158x234x18

ISBN-13

9780521196987

Product ID

21386612

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