Binding, unfolding and evaluating modern Greek personal storytelling : a discourse-analytic study
The subject of this study is Modern Greek (MG) personal storytelling, an unexplored yet vital mode of communication in Greeks' everyday socialisation. The investigation aimed to explore its text-constitutive mechanisms and elucidate their context-sensitivity along two axes; culture-dependence and the audience variable as shaped by the distinction storytelling to adults (SA) versus storytelling to children (SC). The data that formed the basis of this research are tape-recorded oral personal MG stories addressed to adults and children, which make up the following two corpora: i. The basic corpus comprising 40 prompted storeis and ii. The free corpus comprising 170 naturally occurring intraconversational stories. These were supplemented by a written corpus of 120 stories and an oral corpus of 80 children's stories. The above data were analysed on the basis of a tri-level functional model of narrative discourse, that of <I>binding, unfolding</I> (Coste 1989, Bamberg & Marchman 1991) and <I>evaluating</I> (Labov 1972). This was critically abstracted from discourse-analytic studies of storytelling as an analytic tool to unlock the stories' local organisation or linear ordering along a horizontal axis (binding),
Georgakopoulou, Alexandra
Binding, unfolding and evaluating modern Greek personal storytelling : a discourse-analytic study. The subject of this study is Modern Greek (MG) personal storytelling, an unexplored yet vital mode of communication in Greeks' everyday socialisation. The investigation aimed to explore its text-constitutive mechanisms and elucidate their context-sensitivity along two axes; culture-dependence and the audience variable as shaped by the distinction storytelling to adults (SA) versus storytelling to children (SC). The data that formed the basis of this research are tape-recorded oral personal MG stories addressed to adults and children, which make up the following two corpora: i. The basic corpus comprising 40 prompted storeis and ii. The free corpus comprising 170 naturally occurring intraconversational stories. These were supplemented by a written corpus of 120 stories and an oral corpus of 80 children's stories. The above data were analysed on the basis of a tri-level functional model of narrative discourse, that of <I>binding, unfolding</I> (Coste 1989, Bamberg & Marchman 1991) and <I>evaluating</I> (Labov 1972). This was critically abstracted from discourse-analytic studies of storytelling as an analytic tool to unlock the stories' local organisation or linear ordering along a horizontal axis (binding),
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