Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Major concepts and conversational data for this study
Chapter 3. Story teller’s groundwork to introduce a story
Chapter 4. Confirmation request to create a ground
Chapter 5. Story recipient’s interest in the teller’s life
Chapter 6. Story recipients’ understanding of a story and the conversational circumstances
Chapter 7. Story recipients’ involvement
in the storytelling and shared knowledge
Chapter 8. Participants’ lives in the storytelling
“The Undergraduate Student’s Complaint”
Chapter 9. Conclusion
References
Appendix A. Meetings and participants
Appendix B. Stories in this book
Appendix C. Transcription conventions
Name index
Subject index
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