The Nature of Meaning of Stories in Conversation
Although everyday stories told in the course of ongoing conversations are as open to multiple readings as many literary texts, the participants in the conversational storytelling situation must assign a meaning to a given telling of a story in order to facilitate the absorption of the story into the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
1981-09-01
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Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol6/iss1/5 |