Falconi, Elizabeth. <br/><br/>
Storytelling As Narrative Practice :  Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (272 pages) 
 - Studies in Pragmatics Series ;  v.19 .
 - Studies in Pragmatics Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. Ethnographic Approaches to Storytelling as Narrative Practice (Falconi and Graber) -- ‎Part 1. Boundaries of the Self -- ‎Introduction to Part 1 -- ‎Chapter 1. Defining Choices Redefined: Heroic Life Narratives of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastics (Crane) -- ‎Chapter 2. Telling Stories, Enacting Institutions: Learning How to Narrate "Coming Out" Experiences (DiDomenico) -- ‎Part 2. Negotiating Heritage -- ‎Introduction to Part 2 -- ‎Chapter 3. The Heritage Narratives of Yiddish Metalinguistic Community Members: Processes of Distancing and Closeness (Avineri) -- ‎Chapter 4. Trajectories of Treasured Texts: Laments as Narratives (Giaxoglou) -- ‎Part 3. Constructing Discursive Authority -- ‎Introduction to Part 3 -- ‎Chapter 5. Telling Traditions: The Dynamics of Zapotec Storytelling (Falconi) -- ‎Chapter 6. Etiological Storytelling and the Interdiscursive Trajectory of a Diagnostic Odyssey (Guzmán) -- ‎Chapter 7. "Syphilis Is Syphilis!": Purity and Genre in a Buryat-Russian News Story (Graber) -- ‎Index. 
<br/><br/> In Storytelling as Narrative Practice, the editors marshal a rich set of ethnographic case studies, drawn from a diverse range of global contexts, to show that storytelling is best understood contextually as a socially contingent practice. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004393936 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Storytelling.<br/>Narration (Rhetoric).<br/>Language and culture.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1042 .S767 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.543