The language of life and death : the transformation of experience in oral narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labov, William, 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to the language of life and death
  • 2. Narrative analysis
  • 3. The escalation of violence
  • 4. Confrontations with death
  • 5. Premonitions and communication with the dead
  • 6. Margie Knott: her confrontation with the neighbors
  • 7. Gloria Stein: 'They stoned the house'
  • 8. Rose Norman: the death of her younger sister
  • 9. Mary Costa: the death of her youngest daughter
  • 10. Cache County
  • 11. The vernacular origin of epic style
  • 12. Historians' use of narrative
  • 13. Thomas Babington Macaulay: the death of Monmouth
  • 14. S. T. Bindoff: the death of Elizabeth
  • 15. 2 Samuel: the death of Absalom
  • 16. The narrative view of death and life.