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This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter, written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn to "unfinished narratives," those stories that will never have a comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities, part social science--their book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.

Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Storytelling.

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Pastoral theology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Storytelling --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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Fiction --- Literary semiotics --- Pragmatics --- #KVHA:Discoursanalyse --- #KVHA:Narratieve analyse --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Storytelling. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Storytelling --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Performance

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Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's relationship with the media, especially television drama. Máire Messenger Davies draws on material gathered from an audience research project commissioned by the BBC, based on surveys, structured discussions with children and interviews with programme makers and policy makers. The book explores a number of complex and controversial issues. What do children think is the ideal television service for them, and for others? How is media consumption managed and negotiated in the home? How is the relationship between programme makers and audience changing in the light of global broadcasting trends? And perhaps most importantly, how much attention should be paid to children's views about these issues and the future of children's television? This engaging and accessible book will appeal to a broad audience.

Children's television programs --- Television and children --- storytelling --- Mass communications --- Great Britain --- Children and television --- Children --- Television programs for children --- Television programs

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Legends. --- Folklore --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Folk tales --- Urban legends --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling