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[Handbook of Pragmatics 24] 2022
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Conversational storytelling

 | Sogang University
Published online: 6 April 2022
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Analytic approaches to storytelling
  • 3.Telling
    • 3.1Story launch
    • 3.2Main story
    • 3.3Recipients’ contributions to the story
  • 4.Story part
    • 4.1Membership categories
    • 4.2Repair
    • 4.3Epistemics
  • 5.Second language storytelling
  • 6.Conclusions
  • References
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