Oral Narration in Modern French

A Linguistics Analysis of Temporal Patterns

• Author(s): Janice Carruthers,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 156
• ISBN_10: 1351195530
  ISBN_13: 9781351195539
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax , Foreign Language Study / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... "Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration - particularly modern 'conversational' narration such as anecdotes or personal stories - has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages. This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses attested, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, the structures deployed at points of temporal sequence, as well as broader questions concerning the nature of oral discourse."