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The language of life and death : the transformation of experience in oral narrative
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- Creator
- William Labov
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xii, 239 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1107656818, 9781139519632, 1107033349, 9781107033344, 9781107656819
- OCLC
- ocn823139809
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction to the language of life and death -- Narrative analysis -- The escalation of violence -- Confrontations with deah -- Premonitions and communication with the dead -- Margie Knott: "Her confrontation with the neighbors" -- Gloria Stein: "They stoned the house" -- Rose Norman: "The death of her younger sister" -- Mary Costa: "The death of her youngest daughter" -- Cache County -- Ther vernacular origin of epic style -- Historians' use of narrative -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: "The death of Monmouth" -- S.T. Bindoff: "The death of Elizabeth" -- 2 Samuel: "The death of Absalom" -- The narrative view of death and life"