EAN: 9783110181371

NARRATIVE AS SOCIAL PRACTICE - DANIELE M KLAPPR...

Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness
of narrative and culture. It does so by contrasting the oral storytelling traditions of two
widely divergent cultures - Anglo-Western culture and the Central Australian culture of the
Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Aborigines. Combining discourse-analytical and pragmalinguistic
methodologies with the perspectives of ethnopoetics and the ethnography of communication  this
book presents a highly original and engaging study of storytelling as a vital communicative
activity at the heart of socio-cultural life. The book is concerned with both theoretical and
empirical issues. It engages critically with the theoretical framework of social constructivism
and the notion of social practice  and it offers critical discussions of the most influential
theories of narrative put forward in Western thinking. Arguing for the adoption of a
communication-oriented and cross-cultural perspective as a prerequisite for improving our
understanding of the cultural variability of narrative practice  Klapproth presents detailed
textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives  and contextualizes
them with respect to the different storytelling practices  values and worldviews in both
cultures. Narrative as Social Practice offers new insights to students and specialists in the
fields of narratology  discourse analysis  cross-cultural pragmatics  anthropology  folklore
study  the ethnography of communication  and Australian Aboriginal studies.

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