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This document provides information about the book "Storytelling as Narrative Practice: Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell" edited by Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber. The book argues that storytelling is best understood by looking at both traditional stories and everyday personal narratives, and presents ethnographic analyses of storytelling practices across various cultures. Each chapter examines language use and draws on in-depth fieldwork to provide rich analyses of storytelling as a social practice. The intended readership includes scholars, instructors, and those interested in narrative, anthropology, sociolinguistics, cultural heritage and identity.

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Storytelling As Narrative Practice: Published: Pages: Language: Subjects

This document provides information about the book "Storytelling as Narrative Practice: Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell" edited by Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber. The book argues that storytelling is best understood by looking at both traditional stories and everyday personal narratives, and presents ethnographic analyses of storytelling practices across various cultures. Each chapter examines language use and draws on in-depth fieldwork to provide rich analyses of storytelling as a social practice. The intended readership includes scholars, instructors, and those interested in narrative, anthropology, sociolinguistics, cultural heritage and identity.

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Storytelling as Narrative Practice

Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell

Editors: Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber

Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans.


Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as
myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately
from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily
basis. In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, editors Elizabeth Published: 08 Jul 2019
Falconi and Kathryn Graber argue that storytelling is best Pages: x, 262 pp.
understood by erasing this analytic divide. Chapter authors Language: English
carefully examine language use in-situ, drawing on in-depth
Subjects: Pragmatics &
knowledge gained from long-term eldwork, to present rich and
Discourse Analysis,
nuanced analyses of storytelling-as-narrative-practice across a
Sociolinguistics, Sociology &
diverse range of global contexts. Each chapter takes a holistic
Anthropology, Global Studies,
ethnographic approach to show the practices, processes, and
Multilingualism & Language
social consequences of telling stories.
Contact
Publisher: Brill
Readership
Series:
Scholars, university instructors, and anyone else interested in
Studies in Pragmatics,
narrative, storytelling, discourse, anthropological and
Volume: 19
sociolinguistic approaches to language, linguistic and cultural
heritage, identity formation, and pragmatics. Anthropology, E-Book
linguistics, folklore, and rhetoric. ISBN: 978-90-04-39393-6
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