The Language of Life and Death : the transformation of experience in oral narrative / William Labov
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE University Press, ©2013Description: xii, 239 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781107656819
- 808.036 LAB
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Introduction to the language of life and death --
Narrative analysis --
The escalation of violence --
Confrontations with deah --
Premonitions and communication with the dead --
Margie Knott: "Her confrontation with the neighbors" --
Gloria Stein: "They stoned the house" --
Rose Norman: "The death of her younger sister" --
Mary Costa: "The death of her youngest daughter" --
Cache County --
Ther vernacular origin of epic style --
Historians' use of narrative --
Thomas Babington Macaulay: "The death of Monmouth" --
S.T. Bindoff: "The death of Elizabeth" --
2 Samuel: "The death of Absalom" --
The narrative view of death and life."
Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: accounts of the danger of death, violence, premonitions and large-scale community conflicts. This book provides a rich range of narratives that grip the reader's attention together with an analysis of how it is done
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