Oral Narration in Modern French

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Oral Narration in Modern French is written by Janice Carruthers and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351195530 (ISBN 10) and 9781351195539 (ISBN 13).

"Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration - particularly modern 'conversational' narration such as anecdotes or personal stories - has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages. This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses attested, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, the structures deployed at points of temporal sequence, as well as broader questions concerning the nature of oral discourse."