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Article published In: Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society
Edited by Hiroko Takanashi and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
[Pragmatics 21:2] 2011
► pp. 213–230

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Framing and collaboration in storytelling events

Forgetfulness, reflexivity and word search

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Published online: 1 June 2011
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The collaborative character of discourse has been studied for different activities and linguistic levels. The present article discusses the relevance of this perspective to a better understanding of storytelling events. The focus is on metadiscursive interactions that result from the teller’s difficulty to evoke a word or linguistic form at a certain point of the story. Two different collaborative solutions are identified and analyzed, and its connections to framing and participation framework discussed.
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