Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life

by Deborah Schiffrin

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589016297
• ISBN13: 9781589016293
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"