Storytelling Rights
The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life.

Amy Shuman (Author)

9780521030045, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

240 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.371 kg

Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Fight stories: what counts is the recounting
2. Storyability and tellability
3. Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community
4. Retellings
5. Varieties of contextuality
6. Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Sociolinguistics [CFB]