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- Title
Interpersonal Activities in Conversational Storytelling.
- Authors
Mandelbaum, Jenny
- Abstract
This paper presents a case study of a conversational storytelling in which a recipient redirects an ongoing storytelling. The storytelling begins as one which threatens to make another recipient its "butt." In redirecting the storytelling, the "Tsutt" is rescued. The account of how these activities are achieved indicates, first, that storytelling may be a way of accomplishing interpersonal activities, both for teller and recipients. Secondly, it demonstrates that recipient is an active participant in the storytelling, both in determining what the storytelling comes to be "about," and in working out the interpersonal activities it performs. Conclusions are drawn about the work of storytelling in the interactive construction of experience.
- Subjects
ORAL interpretation; ORAL communication; ORAL reading; STORYTELLING; CASE studies; CONVERSATION
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1989, Vol 53, Issue 2, p114
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570318909374295