Vernacular Narratives: A Case Study of Stylistic Analysis of
Students’ Written Stories

J 2014

Vernacular Narratives: A Case Study of Stylistic Analysis of Students’ Written Stories

PELCLOVÁ, Jana

Basic information

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

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

References:

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

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

MUNI/A/0857/2013, interní kód MU

Name: Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu II (Acronym: NDEP)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Cite

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

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