Conversational storytelling
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Analytic approaches to storytelling
- 3.Telling
- 3.1Story launch
- 3.2Main story
- 3.3Recipients’ contributions to the story
- 4.Story part
- 4.1Membership categories
- 4.2Repair
- 4.3Epistemics
- 5.Second language storytelling
- 6.Conclusions
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References
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