Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life.

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Author / Creator:Schiffrin, Deborah.
Imprint:Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (230 pages).
Language:English
Series:Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11786650
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Other authors / contributors:De Fina, Anna.
Nylund, Anastasia.
ISBN:9781589016743
1589016742
1589016297
9781589016293
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history. In Telli.
Other form:Print version: Schiffrin, Deborah. Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life. Washington : Georgetown University Press, ©2010 9781589016293
Print version: Schiffrin, Deborah. Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life. Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010 9781589016293