Publications

Publication details [#7657]

Polanyi, Livia. 1981. Telling the same story twice. Text 1 (4) : 315–336.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational narrative | recipient design

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Every story text differs from every other story text because of 'recipient design'. However, viewed more abstractly, multiple tellings may reduce to the same underlying structure. These points of view are illustrated through the analysis of a transcript of a taperecorded conversational story.