Mlynar2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Jakub Mlynář |
| Title | “I’ll tell you later on”: Proleptic and analeptic tying devices in oral history interviews |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Storytelling, Narrative, Oral history, Tying, Interviews |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Narrative Inquiry |
| Volume | 30 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 161-184 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18020.mly |
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Abstract
This article investigates an interactional phenomenon in which oral history interview participants deal with temporal structure in extended storytelling. It is based on the observation that while narrating a life story, participants routinely use its temporal structure as an organizing principle of the interview. Drawing inspiration from Sacks’ notion of tying devices and Genette’s distinction of prolepsis/analepsis, I have identified two forms of practices that interrelate storytelling sequences in an interview. For the first form, I propose the term analeptic tying: in this practice, turns produced earlier are treated as a resource for the current turn. For the second form, I propose the term proleptic tying, which refers to planned turns of speech that have yet to be produced being treated as a resource. I discuss the proleptic and analeptic tying devices in relation to relevant research in ethnomethodology/conversation analysis, which is the approach taken in this article.
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