Narrative interaction

About this book

"The volume focuses on narration as a contextualized and contextualizing activity, which allocates specific structural tasks to the participants in the narrative process (narrator, co-narrator, listener). Thus, the research questions are oriented towards story telling under a functional and interactive perspective. The contributions analyze recordings of authentic narrations in different functions using different kinds of qualitative reconstructive methods. The data comes from everyday as well as institutional settings and the languages covered are English, German, Greek, Hungarian, and Italian."--Jacket.