TY  - BOOK
AU  - Labov, William
AU  - Labov, William
TI  - The Language of Life and Death:  : the transformation of experience in oral narrative
SN  - 9781107656819
U1  - 808.036 LAB 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge 
PB  - : CAMBRIDGE University Press, 
KW  - Literature
KW  -  Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Experience of life
KW  - Narrative art
KW  - Muntligt berättande
N1  - 	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."
N2  - 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
ER  -