Women, Men, and Conversational Narrative Performances: Aspects of Gender in Greek Storytelling  

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Georgakopoulou, Alexandra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 4 (1995), page 460-486.
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Everyday talk has long been explored as reflective and constitutive of gender meanings. Drawing on the frameworks of ethnographically oriented discourse analysis and interactional sociolinguistics, this paper focuses on Greek conversational storytelling with the aim of exploring systematic differences between women and men in the construction of narrative worlds. It is argued that Greek narrative discourse style is based on a closed set of performance devices that, though drawn upon equally by both gender groups, act as contextualization cues for the storytellers' gender identity. This is mainly evidenced in instances of speech animation that give rise to gender- shaped participation frameworks. These are an integral part of the narrators' unmarked self-presentation styles. Women's stories mainly involve self-depreciation, while men's stories display adversativeness and competitiveness. The discussion shows how storytellers strategically employ them to achieve various interactional purposes within conversational contexts. It thus sheds light on the ways in which Greek narrators restructure participatory alignments and negotiate interactional positionings by invoking gender-based values, roles, and stereotypes.

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