Collaborative oral narratives of general experience: when an interview becomes a conversation

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Lambrou
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
General Experience ◽  
Social Act

This article explores the shift in speech genre from a peer group interview speech event to an activity type with interactive features resembling a casual conversation and the consequent effects on the narrator, interviewees and process of story-telling. It reports on sociolinguistic interviews in which collection of oral narratives of personal experience among members of the Greek Cypriot community in London becomes collaborative and facilitates the co-production of spoken personal narratives (hence the ‘general experience’ of the title). The highly social act of narrating sees the emergence of explicit and implicit collaborative strategies, specifically the use of prompts and requests for clarification, which appear to be an inevitable outcome of narrating in a setting where the audience is wider than just the interviewer.

scholarly journals Narrative Style: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Oral Personal Experience Narratives

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Dr. Ayaz Ahmad ◽  
Mr. Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives

Personal narrative, a very important subgenre of narratives, is usually developed in a particular style. To know its specificity, in this study, oral personal narratives have been analyzed. For this purpose, twenty oral narratives, collected from twenty students of BS English, have been analyzed. In order to understand the macrostructure, i.e., narrative categories, Labov’s (1972) model of sociolinguist features of narratives has been used. For the analysis of microstructures, Halliday’s and Hasan’s (1976) five key cohesive ties: references, conjunction, substitution, ellipses, and lexical ties have been used. It was found that with little variations, most of the personal experience oral narratives follow the Labov’s structure of narrative analysis, i.e., abstract, orientation, complicating actions, resolution, evaluation, and coda. Likewise, while doing microanalysis, it was found that the narratives were well-compact with the help of elements of cohesive ties. The study shows that oral personal experience narratives can have the same structure as those of written narratives.

Transferable communicative routines: strategies and group identity in two speech events

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ann Watson
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Talk Story ◽  
Speech Events

ABSTRACTTwo speech events, narration and joking conversation, are analyzed from a sample of speech data recorded from Hawaiian children 5–7 years old, in a peer group setting. An underlying routine, which is transferable from one genre of speech event to another, is identified in both narration and joking. This routine is iterative, and allows for both stories and joking to be produced jointly in a contrapuntal style. Some social rules governing the use of the routine are discussed. (Linguistic routines, narration, joking, conversation, Hawaiian talk story.)

Patterns of Discourse Coherence: Variations in Genre Performance in Children with Language Impairment

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn S. Bliss ◽  
Allyssa McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Discourse Coherence ◽  
Procedural Discourse ◽  
Social Communicative

Background: The purpose of this investigation was to compare the discourse coherence of 36 children with language impairment (LI) who produced 3 types of genres: scripts, personal narratives, and procedural discourse. Method: The children described in random order a routine activity, personal experience, and a favorite game. The genres were analyzed for length, syntactic complexity, topic maintenance, informativeness, and fluency. Results: Scripts resulted in short, simple, and fluent utterances. Personal narratives and procedural discourse were similar in their length, informativeness, and fluency. Procedures were more syntactically complex and on topic than personal narratives. Conclusions: Children with LI are influenced by discourse genre. Clinical Implications: Different discourse genres should be compared in clinical assessments. Intervention should include different discourse genres in order to maximize a child's social, communicative, and classroom discourse.

scholarly journals Uskon performatiivit kokemuskerronnassa

Elore ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Hovi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Word Of Faith ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
Personal Experience Stories ◽  
Faith Movement ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

The article is focused on the construction of a relationship between religious faith and personal narratives. The hypothesis advanced is that the maintenance of religious convictions within charismatic Christianity takes place thorough sharing personal experience stories, in which the course of everyday life is interpreted biblically. The article is based on interview material. The interviewees are members of the Word of Faith congregation in Turku. The congregation represents the Faith Movement originating in North America, which was brought to Finland via Sweden (Livets Ord) at the beginning of the 1990s. The writer combines the ideas of socio-psychology of religion (mainly role theory) and narrative research, which applies the idea of performative speech in speech act theory.

scholarly journals Synchronous personal method of language studying speech behavior in implicit pragmalinguistics

XLinguae ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Irina A. Zyubina ◽  
Marianna Iu. Filippova ◽  
Natalia A. Minakova ◽  
Liudmila V. Krivoshlykova ◽  
Irina G. Anikejeva
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Static System ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Newspaper Text ◽  
Linguistic Behavior

Any speech behavior reflects personal characteristics of the speakers. In speech, communicants actualize their individual, social, national, and cultural characteristics, which are in an inseparable unity and represent a specific linguistic behavior. However, the authors note that the features of the actualization of these characteristics and their combination change, which depends on the communication situation and on a particular speech genre. The main approach of the research is the synchronouspersonal approach. The authors examined and analyzed examples of the speech behavior of a particular prosecutor. They studied his speeches in a jury, in a professional court, and a newspaper article written by him. All speeches have similar features: 1) the same parameters of the personal, social and objective planes of the implicit speech strategy “Participation / Nonparticipation of members of communication in a speech event”, 2) almost similar indicators of certain / uncertain statements of the implicit speech strategy “Sure/Unsure speech behavior of an author” in the speech to professionals in the court and in the newspaper text. All three speeches have more negative attitudes to the speech event. The study distinguished significant differences. The indexes of all the planes in the speech before the jury differ in comparison with the speech before the professionals and in the newspaper article. The authors revealed a strict connection between the sender’s speech behavior and various targets of the addressee. Speech behavior also depends on the recipients of these texts. It has been proved that human speech behavior is not a static system, and it can change, which depends on communicants’ interaction.

scholarly journals The Contextuality of Fallacies

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans H. Van Eemeren ◽  
Peter Houtlosser
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Speech Event ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Dialogue Types

Van Eemeren and Houtlosser observe that Walton’s (and Walton and Krabbe’s) notion of ‘dialogue type’ involves a mixture of an empirical notion on a par with a speech event or activity type and a normative notion such as the model of a critical discussion. Then they discuss Walton’s contextual analysis of fallacies as illegitimate dialectical shifts of dialogue types and offer an alternative in which both the empirical and the normative dimension are given their due.

scholarly journals The Methodological Framework for the Study of Nostalgic and Personal Narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 945
Author(s):  
Ivan Kovačević ◽  
Dragana Antonijević ◽  
Žarko Trebješanin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Nostalgic narratives occur in two major forms – as historical nostalgia and as personal nostalgia. Personal contents and historical stories can be registered in the free form of life stories, a well-known genre in folkloristics, as well as in narratives obtained through two forms of interview. The first form of interview is generated from anthropological tradition, or rather, ethnographic data gathering and refers to descriptions of social, economic and all other elements of the past, while the other form of interview, generated in psychology, similar to an in-depth interview, refers to personal experiences from an earlier time. When nostalgic narratives are collected using either of these two approaches, it is possible to a) conduct an analysis of each narrative on its own, or b) compare them in order to determine similarities and differences. Based on this it is possible to determine where and how descriptions of the past which do not coincide with personal experience are generated, which is the main characteristic of both yugonostalgia and other similar ways of remembering the past.

Cyber-Moms Facing Motherhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Boursier ◽  
Valentina Manna ◽  
Francesca Gioia ◽  
Federica Coppola ◽  
Noemi Venosa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Parental Experiences ◽  
Transition To Motherhood ◽  
Group Functioning ◽  
Group I ◽  
Web Forums

Mothers and mothers-to-be often become e-health users because of their need for sharing emotional and practical parental experiences. In this sense, web forums seem to positively contribute to parenting skills and transition to motherhood. This study aims at exploring how 379 Italian mothers use two Italian forums, the manifest and latent contents of their interactions, and the emotional connections between their own maternal experiences and the e-group dynamics. The qualitative analysis of 7433 comments pointed out five main themes, describing how mothers make sense of their experiences through the online dimension: the group; I am; personal experience; perspective knowhow; tech-moms. This study confirms that parenting experience represents a big challenge for rising mothers. Moreover, it shows that the e-groups can alternatively reproduce a peer group functioning and a feeding breast, a reassuring container with holding functions, or a “toilet breast”, encouraging progressive as well as regressive movements.

Cyber-Moms Facing Motherhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-108
Author(s):  
Valentina Boursier ◽  
Valentina Manna ◽  
Francesca Gioia ◽  
Federica Coppola ◽  
Noemi Venosa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Parental Experiences ◽  
Transition To Motherhood ◽  
Group Functioning ◽  
Group I ◽  
Web Forums

Mothers and mothers-to-be often become e-health users because of their need for sharing emotional and practical parental experiences. In this sense, web forums seem to positively contribute to parenting skills and transition to motherhood. This study aims at exploring how 379 Italian mothers use two Italian forums, the manifest and latent contents of their interactions, and the emotional connections between their own maternal experiences and the e-group dynamics. The qualitative analysis of 7433 comments pointed out five main themes, describing how mothers make sense of their experiences through the online dimension: the group; I am; personal experience; perspective knowhow; tech-moms. This study confirms that parenting experience represents a big challenge for rising mothers. Moreover, it shows that the e-groups can alternatively reproduce a peer group functioning and a feeding breast, a reassuring container with holding functions, or a “toilet breast”, encouraging progressive as well as regressive movements.

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