ALEXANDRA GEORGAKOPOULOU: SMALL STORIES, INTERACTION AND IDENTITIES. JOHN BENJAMINS, 2007

摘要

Labov and Waletzky's (1967) model of narrative, along with its subsequent reformulation in Labov (1972) and the less frequently cited Labov and Fanshel (1977), is arguably one of the best known constructs in discourse analysis, having influenced subsequent generations of scholars within linguistics and beyond, becoming in effect what Latour (1987) has termed a 'black box', widely accepted and used, sometimes uncritically, for a whole range of analytic purposes. When for example I started my doctoral research in the early 1980s, I wanted to take a discourse perspective on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and chose to focus on narrative assuming it, post-Labov, to be a relatively well-understood phenomenon.