Telling Stories : Language, Narrative, and Social Life.

Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal level...

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Main Author: Schiffrin, Deborah
Other Authors: De Fina, Anna, Nylund, Anastasia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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