Wong2026
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Wong2026 |
| Author(s) | Jean Wong |
| Title | Narrative in CA |
| Editor(s) | Matthew Burdelski, Tim Greer |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Narrative |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 125–139 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781032720852-9 |
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| Book title | The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis |
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Abstract
Storytelling is pervasive in our lives. It is integral to how we go about doing life as usual (e.g., analyzing the current situation that we find ourselves in). In this vein, stories may be told for their own sake, but they are often done to achieve social actions: “to complain, to boast, to inform, to alert, to tease, to explain, to excuse or justify”. This chapter surveys the early and later CA literature on storytelling, which largely returns us to Sacks as he was the pioneer in laying the foundation for the sequential analysis of storytelling in his search for a “technology for conversation”. This survey of the literature commences with a section on storytelling and the notion of understanding, which segues into the main section and overall thread of the chapter (i.e., storytelling as an interactional achievement), which is subdivided into three main components that comprise storytelling structure: launching the story, telling the story, and responding to the story. The chapter concludes with a consideration of future directions, along with a few suggested readings.
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