SongWaring2021

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SongWaring2021
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key SongWaring2021
Author(s) Gahye Song, Hansun Zhang Waring
Title Nanun-prefacing in Korean storytelling
Editor(s) Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring
Tag(s) EMCA, Korean
Publisher Routledge
Year 2021
Language English
City New York
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 82–96
URL Link
DOI 10.4324/9780429029240-7
ISBN
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Institution
School
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
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Abstract

This chapter describes the use of reference to speaker at a tellership transition position during storytelling in Korean. More specifically, the practice of initiating a telling with the first-person pronoun na or ce ‘I’ followed by the topic particle -nun, or nanun-prefacing, is described as a linguistic resource to mark the initiation of a telling that is similar to previous one in terms of topic, action, and format. Producing closely-related ‘parallel tellings,’ participants construct a larger sequence of topical talk or a series of stories collaboratively. By describing a discourse organizational function of speaker’s self-reference in storytelling, this study contributes to the research on both person reference and story-telling in Korean conversation.

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