The Language of Storytelling

Description

A study which examines the telling of the same story to the collector by two different informants. Both concern a local character known as Buttonsticks, and were related to the collector in July 1979. Each story unit is studied on different levels, from the narreme to the utterance, the sentence, the unit of linkage, and from the point of view of pronunciation and dialect, to see how the two independent narrators produce two stories of different lengths and in different styles, concerning what is essentially the same event. The study contains basic transcripts of the stories, a description of terms used in narremic analysis, a description of narremes and the narremic structures of the stories, the grammatical significance of the narreme, the utterance and the sentence, sentence-types, units of linkage and features of the dialect. Appendices contain narremic transcriptions of the two versions, and a comparison of their narremic structures; analysis of pauses in both narratives, and the distinction between sentences and units of linkage in both transcripts.

Metadata

Identifier jqrz64xp
IRN 410148
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/112
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jqrz64xp
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Graham, Jacqueline P
Date 1980
Size and Medium 40 unbound typed leaves. Photocopy.

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