Crossing boundaries: The nexus of time, space, person, and place in narrative

Autor:	Deborah Schiffrin
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Narrative criticism Narrative network Narrative history Narrative structure Identity (social science) Narrative Sociology Language and Linguistics Chronotope Linguistics Narrative inquiry
Zdroj:	Language in Society. 38:421-445
ISSN:	1469-8013 0047-4045
DOI:	10.1017/s0047404509990212
Popis:	Recent research on narrative has widened the scope of analysis, suggesting the value of reexamining the canonical Labovian view of the structure and function of personal-experience narrative. This article suggests that narrative is not simply a way of evoking and shaping experience in time. Rather, narrative can evoke and shape cultural “chronotopes” (Bakhtin 1981) or nexuses of time, space, and identity. To illustrate this, I analyze a narrative from an oral history related in 1972 by a young woman whose volunteer work in the mid-1960s led to the rehabilitation of a small African American enclave in a middle-class White suburb. Analysis of clause types, constructed dialogue, existentialthere, deixis, verb chains, and referring expressions shows that the narrative is a blend of genres evoking place as well as personal identity linked to complex coordinates of time and space, and dependent intertextually on other parts of a larger story. (Narrative, oral history, chronotope, space, place, identity, genre)*
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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