5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescents
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Irene Fonte
Abstract
In oral narratives of personal experience, speakers must resort to a number of interpersonal devices to maintain the interest of their listeners during long conversational turns. Dialogue and the co-construction of meaning between speaker and listener take a rather different shape in these narrative environments than in the more balanced turn-taking of ordinary conversation. We propose that dialogue is implicitly codified in specific interpersonal features in the narrative (e.g., forms of address, onomatopoeia, swear words and other expressive vocabulary). This study examines the variety of these resources and their function at different moments of the narrative sequence in selected texts from a corpus of spontaneous oral narratives from Mexico City.
Abstract
In oral narratives of personal experience, speakers must resort to a number of interpersonal devices to maintain the interest of their listeners during long conversational turns. Dialogue and the co-construction of meaning between speaker and listener take a rather different shape in these narrative environments than in the more balanced turn-taking of ordinary conversation. We propose that dialogue is implicitly codified in specific interpersonal features in the narrative (e.g., forms of address, onomatopoeia, swear words and other expressive vocabulary). This study examines the variety of these resources and their function at different moments of the narrative sequence in selected texts from a corpus of spontaneous oral narratives from Mexico City.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- 1. A continuum of approaches to dialogue 1
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Part I. Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation
- 2. Dialogues within oral narratives 31
- 3. Being polite through irony 55
- 4. Humor in verbal irony 69
- 5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescents 89
- 6. The truth about verdad 117
- 7. Backchannels as a realization of interaction 137
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Part II. Dialogue in public, professional, and educational contexts
- 8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practice 159
- 9. Conflict resolution 189
- 10. A discourse analysis of Alzheimer-type dementia in personal conversations 221
- 11. Triadic discourse 237
- 12. Behind L2 pragmatics 257
- Conclusions and implications of studies that approach dialogue in its complexity 283
- References 291
- General index 315
- List of contributors 321
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- 1. A continuum of approaches to dialogue 1
-
Part I. Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation
- 2. Dialogues within oral narratives 31
- 3. Being polite through irony 55
- 4. Humor in verbal irony 69
- 5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescents 89
- 6. The truth about verdad 117
- 7. Backchannels as a realization of interaction 137
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Part II. Dialogue in public, professional, and educational contexts
- 8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practice 159
- 9. Conflict resolution 189
- 10. A discourse analysis of Alzheimer-type dementia in personal conversations 221
- 11. Triadic discourse 237
- 12. Behind L2 pragmatics 257
- Conclusions and implications of studies that approach dialogue in its complexity 283
- References 291
- General index 315
- List of contributors 321
