SongWaring2021
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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 |
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Pages | 82–96 |
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DOI | 10.4324/9780429029240-7 |
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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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