Georgakopoulou2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Alexandra Georgakopoulou |
| Title | Closing in on story openings and closings: Evidence from conversational stories in Greek |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Greek, Conversation Analysis, Storytelling, Openings, Closings |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Journal of Greek Linguistics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 345-361 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1163/156658410X531960 |
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Abstract
My aim in this paper is to show the benefits of incorporating a conversation-analytic perspective in the analysis of Greek storytelling data with regard to the endpoints of a telling, that is, the opening and the closing. I specifically explore the types of story openings and closings occurring in a data set that comprises the conversations of a group of female adolescents in a small town in Greece. I also discuss the salience of economic openings (Jefferson 1978) realized by certain conventionalized devices and the importance and local design of what I call counter stories in the stories' closing. I juxtapose counter stories to second stories (Sacks 1992), which have been found within CA to be frequent after a story's closing and I assess the frequency of second stories told by the same teller and not by a story recipient in my data. Overall, I argue that these systematic openings and closings in my data are interrelated with the types of stories told and the participants' roles and relations. Finally, I ponder the implications of this close connection for CA work on stories as talk-in-interaction.
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