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PELCLOVÁ, Jana. Vernacular Narratives: A Case Study of Stylistic Analysis of Students’ Written Stories. Kalbu Studijos/ Studies About Languages. Kaunas (Litva), 2014, Neuveden, No 25, p. 45-51. ISSN 1648-2824.

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Original name	Vernacular Narratives: A Case Study of Stylistic Analysis of Students’ Written Stories
Authors	PELCLOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition	Kalbu Studijos/ Studies About Languages, Kaunas (Litva), 2014, 1648-2824.

Other information
Original language	English
Type of outcome	Article in a journal
Field of Study	60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher	Lithuania
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW	URL
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14210/14:00078715
Organization unit	Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English	Labov; narrative framework; homodiegetic; heterodiegetic; written stories; vernacular
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Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D., učo 39970. Changed: 24/2/2018 10:56.

Abstract
The paper studies the applicability of Labov's narrative framework and its six categories to vernacular written narratives. The objective is to compare the narratives provided by both homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrators in terms of Labov's narrative organization. The material under investigation is represented by students’ stories that were created in the course Introduction to Stylistics in Spring, 2012. The differences between the communicative situations in which oral and written narratives are embedded are taken into consideration in order to provide a valuable comparison. The paper mainly draws upon the importance and narrative functionality that the Labovian categories are expected to have or lack in ordinary narratives provided by the medium of written language. The paper concludes with the following findings: the abstract and the coda are interdiscursive categories since they function as cohesive devices that delimit the narrative discourse within the non-narrative discourse, regardless of the narrative medium and the communicative situation. The orientation and the evaluation are as important as the complicating action and the resolution for designing a narrative, since they can increase the point of tellability. This is supported by the finding that these two categories were the most elaborated ones in the heterodiegetic versions of the students’ narratives.

Abstract

The paper studies the applicability of Labov's narrative framework and its six categories to vernacular written narratives. The objective is to compare the narratives provided by both homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrators in terms of Labov's narrative organization. The material under investigation is represented by students’ stories that were created in the course Introduction to Stylistics in Spring, 2012. The differences between the communicative situations in which oral and written narratives are embedded are taken into consideration in order to provide a valuable comparison. The paper mainly draws upon the importance and narrative functionality that the Labovian categories are expected to have or lack in ordinary narratives provided by the medium of written language. The paper concludes with the following findings: the abstract and the coda are interdiscursive categories since they function as cohesive devices that delimit the narrative discourse within the non-narrative discourse, regardless of the narrative medium and the communicative situation. The orientation and the evaluation are as important as the complicating action and the resolution for designing a narrative, since they can increase the point of tellability. This is supported by the finding that these two categories were the most elaborated ones in the heterodiegetic versions of the students’ narratives.

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MUNI/A/0857/2013, interní kód MU	Name: Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu II (Acronym: NDEP)
MUNI/A/0857/2013, interní kód MU	Investor: Masaryk University, Category A