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020 _a9781107656819
028 _a:International Book Distributors
_b:Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
_c:117186
_d:29/12/2021
082 _a808.036 LAB
100 _aLabov, William
245 _aThe Language of Life and Death
_b : the transformation of experience in oral narrative
_c/ William Labov
260 _aCambridge
_b: CAMBRIDGE University Press,
_c©2013
300 _axii, 239 pages
_c; 23 cm
365 _b1756
505 _a 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."
520 _aLabov 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
650 _aLiterature
650 _a Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures
650 _aDiscourse analysis, Narrative.
650 _aStorytelling.
650 _aNarration (Rhetoric)
650 _aExperience of life.
650 _aNarrative art.
650 _aMuntligt berättande.
650 _aStorytelling.
700 _aLabov, William
942 _cBOOK
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