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In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Storytelling. --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Oral history. --- Performance. --- Tradition, Oral --- Performance of folklore --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Storytelling --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Methodology --- Performance

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Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the tales included are all from Texas, they are representative of oral storytelling traditions in other parts of the United States, including tall tales, hunting stories, local character anecdotes, accounts of practical jokes, and so on. They are also highly entertaining in their own right. Professor Bauman's main emphasis is on the act of storytelling, not just the text. His central analytical concern is to demonstrate the interrelationships that exist between the events recounted in the narratives (narrated events), the narrative texts, and the situations in which the narratives are told (narrative events). He identifies these interrelationships by combining a close formal analysis of the texts with an ethnographic examination of the way in which their telling is accomplished, paying particular attention to the links between form and function. He also illuminates other more general concerns in the study of oral narrative, such as stability and variation in the oral text, the problem of genre, and the rhetorical efficacy of literary forms. As an important contribution to the theoretical and practical literary analysis of orally performed narratives, the book will appeal to students and teachers of folklore, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and literary theory.

Folklore --- Fiction --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Tradition orale --- Art de conter --- Oral tradition. --- Storytelling. --- Performance. --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Performance of folklore --- Performance --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The volume draws on a large corpus of spontaneous, conversational stories recorded in Greece, where everyday stortytelling is a central mode of communication.

Pragmatics --- Fiction --- Folklore --- Modern Greek literature --- Modern Greek language --- storytelling --- Greece --- Storytelling --- -Folklore --- -Tales --- -Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Performance --- Tales --- Performance of folklore --- Oral communication --- Narration --- Performance. --- Litterature grecque moderne

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Storytelling --- Tales --- Art de conter --- Contes --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Folklore --- Performance. --- History and criticism. --- -Storytelling --- -Folklore --- -Tales --- -Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Performance --- Conferences - Meetings --- -Performance --- Performance of folklore --- Oral communication --- Folk tales --- Storytelling - Europe. --- Storytelling - United States. --- Folklore - Performance. --- Tales - Europe - History and criticism. --- Tales - United States - History and criticism.

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Communication in folklore --- Folklore --- -Folklore --- -Semiotics and folk literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Folk literature and semiotics --- Folk literature --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Folkloric communication --- Methodology --- Performance --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Communication in folklore. --- Semiotics and folk literature. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Methodology. --- Performance. --- Semiotics and folk literature --- Performance of folklore --- Oral communication