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Publication details [#5866]
Labov, William and Joshua Waletzky. 1967. Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. In Helm, June, ed. Essays on the verbal and visual arts: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. Washington UP. pp. 12–44.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
L. and W. argue that an understanding of complex narratives requires an analysis of the most fundamental narrative structures in direct connection with their originating functions; and they suggest that such fundamental structures are to be formd in oral versions of personal experience.