Mandelbaum1989

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Mandelbaum1989
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mandelbaum1989
Author(s) Jenny Mandelbaum
Title Interpersonal activities in conversational storytelling
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Storytelling
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Year 1989
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Journal Western Journal of Speech Communication
Volume 53
Number 2
Pages 114–126
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DOI 10.1080/10570318909374295
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Abstract

This paper presents a case study of a conversational storytelling in which a recipient redirects an ongoing storytelling. The storytelling begins as one which threatens to make another recipient its “butt.” In redirecting the storytelling, the “butt” is rescued. The account of how these activities are achieved indicates, first, that storytelling may be a way of accomplishing interpersonal activities, both for teller and recipients. Secondly, it demonstrates that recipient is an active participant in the storytelling, both in determining what the storytelling comes to be “about,” and in working out the interpersonal activities it performs. Conclusions are drawn about the work of storytelling in the interactive construction of experience.

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