Narrative As Social Practice: Anglo-Western And Australian Aboriginal Oral Traditions

摘要: This is a highly original comparative study of the oral storytelling traditions two widely divergent cultures, Anglo-Western culture and Central Australian Aboriginal culture. Concerned with both theoretical empirical issues, this book offers critical discussion most influential theories narrative. It evaluates them on basis textual analyses narratives, viewed in context different practices, values worldviews cultures. The new insights to readers interested linguistics, narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, studies.