Narrative Performances

Author : Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282644

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Narrative Performances by Alexandra Georgakopoulou Pdf

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The volume draws on a large corpus of spontaneous, conversational stories recorded in Greece, where everyday stortytelling is a central mode of communication in the community’s interactional contexts and thus a rich site for a meaningful enactment of social stances, roles, and relations. The study brings to the fore the stories’ text-constitutive mechanisms and explores the ways in which they situate the narrated experiences globally, by invoking sociocultural knowledge and expectations, and locally, by making them sequentially and interactionally relevant to the specific conversational contexts. The stories’ micro- and macro-level analysis, richly illustrated with narrative transcripts throughout, leads to the uncovery of a global mode of narrative performance which is based on a closed set of recurrent devices. It is argued that the choice or avoidance of this mode is at the heart of the stories’ (re)constitution of a self, an other and a sociocultural world. The numerous cases of intergenerational narrative communication (adults-children) shed additional light on the performance’s contextualization aspects and contribute to the cross-cultural understanding of the dynamics of oral performances. Besides students and researchers of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, narrative analysis and Greek studies, this book will also appeal to all those interested in communication and cultural studies.

Author : Sarah Knor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000824704

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Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction by Sarah Knor Pdf

Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.

Author : Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250599

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Narrative Performances by Alexandra Georgakopoulou Pdf

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The volume draws on a large corpus of spontaneous, conversational stories recorded in Greece, where everyday stortytelling is a central mode of communication in the community's interactional contexts and thus a rich site for a meaningful enactment of social stances, roles, and relations. The study brings to the fore the stories' text-constitutive mechanisms and explores the ways in which they situate the narrated experiences globally, by invoking sociocultural knowledge and expectations, and locally, by making them sequentially and interactionally relevant to the specific conversational contexts. The stories' micro- and macro-level analysis, richly illustrated with narrative transcripts throughout, leads to the uncovery of a global mode of narrative performance which is based on a closed set of recurrent devices. It is argued that the choice or avoidance of this mode is at the heart of the stories' (re)constitution of a self, an other and a sociocultural world. The numerous cases of intergenerational narrative communication (adults-children) shed additional light on the performance's contextualization aspects and contribute to the cross-cultural understanding of the dynamics of oral performances. Besides students and researchers of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, narrative analysis and Greek studies, this book will also appeal to all those interested in communication and cultural studies.

Author : Sarah O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319514215

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Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance by Sarah O'Brien Pdf

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity. The author analyzes the spoken memories and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to trace the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural community from World War II to the present day. In so doing, O’Brien reveals a legacy of emigration that is without precedent in the global Irish Diaspora, and which is deeply relevant to today’s global Irish citizenry in its challenging of preconceived notions of what it is to be Irish in the New World. As well as contributing to understandings of an immigrant linguistic journey over three generations, the book also provides a vital ethnographic portrait of an Irish descendant community that is acutely aware of its vulnerability and invisibility in an increasingly pluralistic South American society. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience including scholars of migration, oral history, folklore, bilingualism, memory, sociolinguistics, narrative performance and Irish Diaspora studies.

Author : Nina Tecklenburg
Publisher : Enactments
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0857428462

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Performing Stories by Nina Tecklenburg Pdf

Retelling performances, collecting things, reading traces, mapping memories, gaming autobiographies: in European and Anglo-American theater since the turn of the millennium, a range of new nonliterary narrative practices such as these have taken root. Unable to be subsumed under a well-established narratological, dramatic, or postdramatic perspective, they call for a reexamination of the relationship between performance and narration. Performing Stories seeks to reconceptualize narrative against the backdrop of innovative theater formats such as collective storytelling games, theater installations, extensive autobiographical performances, immersive role-playing, and audio-video walks. Nina Tecklenburg's focus lies on narration less as literary composition than as sensate, embodied cultural practice--a participatory and open process that fosters social relationships. She gives central importance to the forces of narration that create and undo culture and politics. A foundational new book, Performing Stories presents a groundbreaking transdisciplinary perspective through new approaches that are stimulating to performance studies, narrative and cultural theory, literary criticism, and game and video studies.

Author : Ronald Scollon
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822144

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Context of the informant narrative performance by Ronald Scollon Pdf

An examination of the relationship between narrative structure and narrative performance in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052131111X

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Story, Performance, and Event by Richard Bauman Pdf

An analysis of Texan oral narratives that focuses on the significance of their social context. Although the tales are all from Texas, they are considered representative of oral storytelling traditions in their relationships between story, performance and event.

Author : Douglas Oliver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349104451

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Poetry and Narrative in Performance by Douglas Oliver Pdf

This text uses machine data of poetry readings to discover features of rhythm and intonation and to clear away methodological problems that hamper the teaching of poetic melody. The discussion is linked to the theory of literary form, throwing light on the role of emotion in poetry and fiction.

Author : Claudia Breger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aesthetics, German
ISBN : 0814211976

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An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance by Claudia Breger Pdf

Maps the complexities of imaginative worldmaking in contemporary culture through an aesthetics of narrative performance.

Author : Charles Parrott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000994940

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Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling by Charles Parrott Pdf

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing personal narrative stories for artistic and academic purposes. It is designed to make storytelling accessible to seasoned performers and people who are engaging with the artform for the first time. The author’s unique method of composing stories from action to text privileges oral composition over writing. It draws on anecdotes from the author’s many years of coaching storytellers to illustrate concepts throughout the book, making it entertaining and user-friendly. The methods contained in this book can help students and scholars communicate theoretical and scholarly arguments about culture, gender, race, and the environment. Anyone looking to harness the power of personal storytelling to speak about the political and the personal—in a classroom or on a stage—will find Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text of great use. Additionally, the book will be of interest to qualitative researchers and those applying autoethnographic and storytelling methods in communication studies and other related social science and arts disciplines.

Author : Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042403736

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Narrative Performances by Alexandra Georgakopoulou Pdf

This volume covers such topics as: narrative in discourse analysis; stories in everyday conversations; the story's formal structure; narrative organization; encoding subjectivity; and narrative functions and identities in Greek contexts.

Author : Marco Jacquemet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521552516

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Credibility in Court by Marco Jacquemet Pdf

This study analyses courtroom communicative practices in the trials of an Italian criminal organisation.

Author : Brian Nelson,Anne Freadman,Philip Anderson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 0874137071

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Telling Performances by Brian Nelson,Anne Freadman,Philip Anderson Pdf

These essays engage with narratives and narrative issues, in particular on the issue of performance in and of narrative, with the telling of performance and the performance of telling, and the way stories perform gender and identity. They focus on narrative as such, on narrative genres, and on particular narratives, but they all seek to inform thinking on narrative.

Author : Peter Ian Crawford,Jan Ketil Simonsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:30000037328584

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Ethnographic Film Aesthetics and Narrative Traditions by Peter Ian Crawford,Jan Ketil Simonsen Pdf

Author : Herve Corvellec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351291989

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Stories of Achievements by Herve Corvellec Pdf

Performance is the yardstick by which the quality of individual and collective human effort is assessed. Everywhere, performance shapes the lives of people and organizations according to its logic and demands. The quest for performance has spread to societies worldwide; it has become of central importance for our perception of our activities and our understanding of the world. Such importance calls for reflection within the context of organizations. First, all important social processes are strongly affected by organizations. Second, performance holds a commanding position in organizations. In Stories of Achievements, Herve Corvellec explains performance as a matter of telling, recounting, and communicating an organization's actions or the results of those actions. He describes how organizations work with the notion of performance and examines its connections with efficiency and competition. Corvellec begins with an assessment of management literature, discussing the various ways different professions define performance. What is considered to be performance in one profession may be at odds with its definition in another. The author examines what performance means in the world of sports, and provides a look at performance throughout sports history. He then draws parallels between sports and organizations, detailing similarities and differences between performance and the notions of competitions, measurement and hierarchy. This study covers particular aspects of the notion of performance—linguistic, semantic, theoretical, logical, historical, and narrative. Drawing on various methodologies, each chapter represents a smaller study of how performance is manifested in a particular context. Together, they provide a general presentation of how the notion of performance is used in organizations, where it comes from, and what is meant by performance in general managerial discourse. Stories of Achievements will be engrossing reading for management, accounting, and organization professionals, as well as sociologists interested in the study of economic organizations.