The language of life and death : the transformation of experience in oral narrative /
by Labov, William.
Material type:
BookPublisher: Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013Description: xii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781107033344 (hardback); 1107033349 (hardback); 9781107656819 (pbk.); 1107656818 (pbk.).Subject(s): Discourse analysis, Narrative | Storytelling | Narrative (Rhetoric) | Discourse analysis, Narrative | Narration (Rhetoric) | Storytelling
Contents:
Introduction to the language of life and death -- Narrative analysis -- The escalation of violence -- Confrontations with deah -- Premonitions and communication with the dead -- Margie Knott: "Her confrontation with the neighbors" -- Gloria Stein: "They stoned the house" -- Rose Norman: "The death of her younger sister" -- Mary Costa: "The death of her youngest daughter" -- Cache County -- Ther vernacular origin of epic style -- Historians' use of narrative -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: "The death of Monmouth" -- S.T. Bindoff: "The death of Elizabeth" -- 2 Samuel: "The death of Absalom" -- The narrative view of death and life".
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Introduction to the language of life and death -- Narrative analysis -- The escalation of violence -- Confrontations with deah -- Premonitions and communication with the dead -- Margie Knott: "Her confrontation with the neighbors" -- Gloria Stein: "They stoned the house" -- Rose Norman: "The death of her younger sister" -- Mary Costa: "The death of her youngest daughter" -- Cache County -- Ther vernacular origin of epic style -- Historians' use of narrative -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: "The death of Monmouth" -- S.T. Bindoff: "The death of Elizabeth" -- 2 Samuel: "The death of Absalom" -- The narrative view of death and life".
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