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Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Story Telling
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This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shapley, M., & Polanyi, L.
- Venue
- Language
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1986-09
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 734
- ISSN
- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2056934412
- Cited by
- 417
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 27.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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