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... Children may learn something new about the pragmatic constraints on storytelling: non-literal content, such as explanations and internal state attributions, is central to making a story informative and interesting for one's listeners (e.g. Galitch & Quasthoff, 1986;Hausendorf & Quasthoff, 1992). And it may also be the case that the procedure-by focalizing children's attention away from the pictured details and on inferential aspects such as the causes of the pictured events, and segmenting the overall story into smaller units-helps children promote their underlying competences and improve their ability to integrate them, all at once, into the production of an autonomously constructed narrative. ...
Non-literal language most often permeates interesting and informative narratives. These are the non-perceptible, inferential aspects of a story, such as the explanation of events, the attribution of internal, particularly mental, states to the characters of the story, or the evaluation of events by the participants and/or the narrator. The main aim of this paper is to examine whether non-literal uses can be promoted in 7-year-old French-speaking children’s narratives through the use of a short conversational intervention (SCI) which focuses the children’s attention on the causes of events. The results show that, after the SCI, the expression of non-literal aspects, even higher-order ones, may make their appearance or significantly increase in children’s stories. The reasons for the effectiveness of the SCI in the promotion of non-literal uses of language and narrative skills in general, as well as the importance of using the SCI as an evaluative instrument, are discussed.
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This paper focuses on personal (experience) storytelling in Modern Greek, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the culture. Using as its data a corpus of naturally occurring stories in companies of intimates as well as a corpus of adults' stories for children, the study presents their major evaluative resources. The aim of the discussion is to look into the contextualisation aspects of these resources, that is, to establish interpretive links between the stories' formal choices and their situational and cultural context. At the textual level, it is shown that the category prevailing in the affective component of Greek stories between adults is what will be called the proximal evaluation. This serves the creation of a global performed mode which, contextually speaking, invokes and is shaped by the cultural agenda of functions underlying everyday narrative construction. By contrast, evaluation in stories to children proves to be less internalised, by he...
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