Neal R. Norrick

List of John Benjamins publications for which Neal R. Norrick plays a role.

Journals

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (JLAC)

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou

ISSN 2213-1272 | E-ISSN 2213-1280

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E-ISSN 1569-9935

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Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 294] 2018. vi, 313 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 182] 2009. xvii, 238 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk

Neal R. Norrick

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics

Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory

Neal R. Norrick

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 20] 1981. xiii, 252 pp.

Subjects Semantics | Semiotics | Theoretical linguistics

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Norrick, Neal R. 2021 Requests for stories: The evolving notion of tellability in narrative studies Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed, McCabe, Allyssa and Dorien Van De Mieroop (eds.), pp. 28–48 | Article

My contribution traces the evolving notion of tellability in the study of narrative over the last thirty-odd years: Tellability was initially seen as an objective property of textual content, but research on narrative in real contexts of talk has increasingly recognized the various ways… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2020 The epistemics of narrative performance in conversation Narrative Inquiry 30:2, pp. 211–235 | Article

This article investigates the flow of information in conversational narrative performance in light of research on the epistemics of talk in interaction and epistemic vigilance on the part of story recipients. Based on examples from a range of corpora, it reassesses the relationship between… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2018 Narrative studies versus pragmatics (of narrative) Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Chapter

This chapter considers the interface between pragmatics and narrative studies, initially with reference to Labovian, conversation analytic (CA) and psycholinguistic approaches to narrative, where common ground is found between these and more properly pragmatic approaches in such topics as… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2018 Negation in narrative: Why say what didn’t happen? Narrative Inquiry 28:2, pp. 373–395 | Article

Negation in narrative has been described primarily as a resource for expressing evaluation, and secondarily in its role in establishing orientation, but this article investigates a range of ways negated statements can contribute directly to complicating action. Negation works through… read more

Norrick, Neal R. and Cornelia Ilie 2018 Introduction: Pragmatics and its interfaces Pragmatics and its Interfaces, Ilie, Cornelia and Neal R. Norrick (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction

Norrick, Neal R. 2013 Stories of vicarious experience in speeches by Barack Obama Narrative Inquiry 23:2, pp. 283–301 | Article

Stories of personal experience have been a staple of research on narrative, while stories of vicarious experience have remained largely ignored, though they offer special insights into issues of epistemic authority and telling rights, coherence and evaluation, contextualization and stance-taking.… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2013 Aggression in conversational storytelling performance Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 1:1, pp. 9–36 | Article

This article explores the forms and functions of aggression in conversational narrative performance based on a range of corpora representing a wide variety of storytelling types, speakers and contexts. The primary teller of a conversational narrative may report aggression and hostility in story… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2012 Remembering for narration and autobiographical memory Language and Dialogue 2:2, pp. 193–215 | Article

This article proposes a notion of “remembering for narration” based on Slobin’s (1987) concept of “thinking for speaking” to circumvent issues of autobiographical memory and focus on narrative practices. It suggests that we recognize a special cognitive mode of remembering for narration, which… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2012 Swearing in literary prose fiction and conversational narrative Narrative Inquiry 22:1, pp. 24–49 | Article

This article compares swearing in novels with swearing in everyday talk based on a representative sample of British and American prose fiction and a several large corpora of natural conversation. Swearing allegedly makes fictional dialogue more realistic, but up till now no one has attempted a… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2010 Incorporating recipient evaluations into stories Narrative Inquiry 20:1, pp. 182–203 | Article

Evaluation constitutes a central feature of personal stories in conversation. Storytellers introduce evaluation into their narratives in various ways, including cases of appropriating assessments offered by their listeners. A storyteller may orient to the content of listener assessments and respond… read more

Norrick, Neal R. and Claudia Bubel 2009 Direct address as a resource for humor Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Article

This chapter explores the use of direct address to create humor in scripted jokes and in everyday conversation based on examples from corpora of transcribed conversational English. We take direct address to include any reference to a real or imagined listener with a proper or invented term of… read more

Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro 2009 Introduction: Humor and interaction Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. xiii–xxi | Article

Norrick, Neal R. 2008 Negotiating the reception of stories in conversation: Teller strategies for modulating response Narrative Inquiry 18:1, pp. 131–151 | Article

In this article, I explore strategies storytellers use to increase listener response to their performances, such as (1) repeating a salient phrase, particularly a piece of dialogue; (2) adding an explanation of the point of a story; (3) drawing out some consequence of the story; and particularly… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2008 Using large corpora of conversation to investigate narrative: The case of interjections in conversational storytelling performance International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:4, pp. 438–464 | Article

This article describes a hybrid corpus linguistic approach to conversational storytelling, whereby one first identifies a feature of interest in a small set of narratives, then moves to a general investigation of this feature in large corpora of transcribed conversation, focusing only later on the… read more

Norrick, Neal R. 2005 Contextualizing and recontextualizing interlaced stories in conversation The Sociolinguistics of Narrative, Thornborrow, Joanna and Jennifer Coates (eds.), pp. 107–127 | Article

Norrick, Neal R. 2005 11. Interaction in the telling and retelling of interlaced stories: The co-construction of humorous narratives Narrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 263–283 | Chapter

Norrick, Neal R. 2005 The dark side of tellability Narrative Inquiry 15:2, pp. 323–343 | Article

This article propounds a revised, two-sided notion of tellability – one which encompasses both the familiar lower-bounding side of tellability as sufficient to warrant listener interest and the generally ignored upper-bounding side where tellability merges into the no longer tellable of impropriety. read more