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- Title
Negotiating meaning in narratives: An investigation of the interactional construction of the punchline and the post punchline sequences.
- Authors
Kjaerbeck, Susanne; Asmuß, Birte
- Abstract
This article focuses on the negotiation of meaning in narratives. One crucial place for the negotiation of meaning in narratives is its punchline and the sequence it precedes, the post punchline sequence. These activities are systematically examined in a two-step procedure: The participants address the modality of the story in their construction of the punchline. Here, the recipient claims a preliminary understanding of the story and the teller of the story can acknowledge this claim; and the participants evaluate the story by explicitly negotiating the understanding of the reported experience and by relating the story to a wider context.
- Subjects
NARRATION; MEANING (Psychology); SEQUENCE (Linguistics); STORYTELLING; STORYTELLERS; LINGUISTIC context
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry, 2005, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1387-6740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ni.15.1.01kja