Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories
Mariko Karatsu
[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.
Mariko Karatsu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mariko Karatsu plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2014 Repetition of words and phrases from the punch lines of Japanese stories about food and restaurants: A group bonding exercise Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 185–208 | Article
Drawing on research on repetition in storytelling (Jefferson et al., 1987; Norrick, 2000; Georgakopoulou, 2007), I demonstrate how words and phrases in punch lines about food and restaurants can acquire evaluative or symbolic meanings in a storytelling among three Japanese women. I also show how… read more
2010 chapter 4 Sharing a personal discovery of a taste: Using distal demonstratives in a storytelling about kakuni ‘stewed pork belly’ Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 113–144 | Chapter
Focusing on the participants’ uses of distal demonstratives, this chapter investigates how a teller’s personal discovery and assessment of a new taste (kakuni ‘stewed pork belly’) are shared with a recipient through the process of a storytelling. In data from an audio/video taped naturally… read more