Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre

Author(s)

• Szatrowski, Polly Ellen

Bibliographic Information

Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre

edited by Polly E. Szatrowski

（Studies in narrative, v. 13）

John Benjamins, c2010

• : hardcover

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation narratives, television talk shows, survey interviews, and large university lectures focus on participation/participatory framework, topical coherence, involvement, knowledge, the story recipient's role, prosody and nonverbal behavior. Story tellers across genre are shown to use linguistic/paralinguistic (prosody, reported speech, style shifting, demonstratives, repetition, ellipsis, co-construction, connectives, final particles, onomatopoeia) and nonverbal (gesture, gaze, head nodding) devices to involve their recipients, and recipients also use a multiple of devices (laughter, repetition, responsive forms, posture changes) to shape the development of the stories. Nonverbal behavior proves to be a rich resource and constitutive feature of storytelling across genre. The analyses also shed new light on grammar across genre (ellipsis, demonstratives, clause combining), and illustrate a variety of methods for studying genre.

Table of Contents

• 1. Table of contents
• 2. part 1 Introduction
• 3. chapter 1 Introduction: Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre (by Szatrowski, Polly E.)
• 4. part 2 Storytelling in casual conversation
• 5. chapter 2 Manipulation of voices in the development of a story: Prosody and voice quality of Japanese direct reported speech (by Sunakawa, Yuriko)
• 6. chapter 3 Ellipsis and action in a Japanese joint storytelling series: Gaze, pointing, and context (by Koike, Chisato)
• 7. chapter 4 Sharing a personal discovery of a taste: Using distal demonstratives in a storytelling about kakuni 'stewed pork belly' (by Karatsu, Mariko)
• 8. part 3 Storytelling in animation narratives
• 9. chapter 5 Clausal self-repetition and pre-nominal demonstratives in Japanese and English animation narratives (by Watanabe, Fumio)
• 10. part 4 Storytelling in talk shows and survey interviews
• 11. chapter 6 Storytelling in a Japanese television talk show: A host's responsive behavior as a resource for shaping the guest's story (by Honda, Atsuko)
• 12. chapter 7 Telling about experiences in three-party survey interviews: "Second stories" within the interview participatory framework (by Kumagai, Tomoko)
• 13. part 5 Storytelling in university lectures
• 14. chapter 8 The functions of narratives in Japanese university lecture discourse (by Takahashi, Yoshio)
• 15. chapter 9 Creating involvement in a large Japanese lecture: Telling the story of a haiku (by Szatrowski, Polly E.)
• 16. Addresses for contributors to Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre
• 17. Author index
• 18. Subject index

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Details

• NCID: BB03483284
• ISBN:
  • 9789027226532
• LCCN: 2010021312
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engjpn
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 313 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL544.7
  • DC22 : 495.6/16
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japanese language -- Prosodic analysis
  • LCSH : Japanese language -- Spoken Japanese
  • LCSH : Storytelling -- Japan
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA53185451