Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre

321 Pages·2010·15.15 MB·English

by  Polly E. Szatrowski

StorytellinB across Japanese
Conversational Genre
Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre
Studies in Narrative (SiN)
The subject of SiN is the study of narrative. Volumes published in the series
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Clark University
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Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre
Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski
Storytelling across
Japanese Conversational Genre
Edited by
Polly E. Szatrowski
The University of Minnesota
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Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre I edited by Polly E. Szatrowski.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Japanese language--Prosodic analysis. 1.. Japanese language--Spoken Japanese. 3·
Storytelling--Japan. I. Szatrowski, Polly Ellen.
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Table of contents
PART 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre 3
Pally Szatrowski
PART 2. Storytelling in casual conversation
CHAPTER 2
Manipulation of voices in the development of a story:
Prosody and voice quality of Japanese direct reported speech 23
Yuriko Sunakawa
CHAPTER 3
Ellipsis and action in a Japanese joint storytelling series:
Gaze, pointing, and context 61
Chisato Koike
CHAPTER 4
Sharing a personal discovery of a taste: Using distal demonstrative&
in a storytelling about kakuni 'stewed pork belly' 113
Ma.riko Karatsu
PART 3. Storytelling in animation narratives
CHAPTER 5
Clausal self-repetition and pre-nominal demonstrative& in Japanese
and English animation narratives 147
Fumio Watanabe
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PART 4· Storytelling in talk shows and survey interviews
CHAPTER 6
Storytelling in a Japanese television talk show: A host's responsive
behavior as a resource for shaping the guest's story 183
Atsuko Honda
CHAPTER 7
Telling about experiences in three-party survey interviews:
"Second stories" within the interview participatory framework 211
Tomoko Kumagai & Naoyuki Kitani
PART 5. Storytelling in university lectures
CHAPTER 8
The functions of narratives in Japanese university lecture discourse 241
Yoshio Takahashi
CHAPTER 9
Creating involvement in a large Japanese lecture:
Telling the story of a haiku 267
Polly Szatrowski
Addresses for contributors to Sto1ytelling across
Japanese Conversational Genre 303
Author index 305
Subject index 307
PART 1
Introduction

CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Storytelling across Japanese conversational genre
Folly Szatrowski
University of Minnesota
This book is a collection of papers on storytelling in a variety of Japanese conver
sational genre. These include casual conversation, narrative retellings of the story
of an animation (hereafter, animation narratives), television talk shows, survey in
terviews, and large university lectures. The book is divided into five parts focusing
on storytelling in each genre. Information on the presentation of the conversa
tional data, Japanese Romanization, }apanese/Romanized transcription conven
tions, abbreviations used in the word-for-word gloss, English translation, and no
tation for nonverbal behavior is given in the Appendix at the end of this chapter.
The chapters in Part 2 Storytelling in Casual Conversation relate to the use of
prosody and voice quality in direct reported speech, ellipsis and action, and distal
demonstratives (are 'that thing (distal): ano 'that (distal)'). The chapter in Part 3
Storytelling in Animation Narratives is concerned with the use of self-repetition
and pre-nominal proximal (kono 'this (proximal): this) and neutral demonstra
tives (sono 'that (neutral): that) in this genre. The chapters in Part 4 Storytelling in
Talk Shows and Survey Interviews focus on how the host's responsive behavior on
a television talk show can shape the guest's story; and how respondents can tell
"second stories" while observing the participatory framework in sociolinguistic
interviews. Finally, the chapters in Part 5 Storytelling in University Lectures focus
on the function of narratives in large Japanese lectures, and how a professor was
able to create involvement by telling the story of a haiku.
The stories themselves represent a wide range of possibilities, and include first
person stories of personal experience, third person stories, and "non-person" sto
ries about sequences in logic. The chapters in Part 2 Stmytelling in Casual Conver
sa.tion analyze a third person story by one woman to another about their friend and
her henpecked fiance (Sunakawa. Chapter 2), three men's successive stories about
a shared experience (two third person, and one first person story about how one of
the men stood up a female friend with whom he had arranged to go rollerblading