Stories reflect culture, and American stories reflect American culture is LiviaPolanyi's provocative thesis in Telling the American Story. Combining linguistic and culturalanalyses, Polanyi provides thoughtful insights into many features of conversational stories thathave either been put aside or omitted from formal analysis within cognitive science. She also bringsto life stories as cultural artifacts in which every evaluation, presupposition, point, perspective,and interpretation is a reflection of popular culture.Examining the structure of autobiographicalstories, Polanyi pays close attention to the storyteller's own evaluation of the events he or she isnarrating -- why it is being told, and what the audience is to learn by it. This leads to anextended discussion of the ways in which narrative structure is embedded in conversation. Polanyishows how in negotiating a story and negotiating the point of a story, false starts and repairs canbe used to further the narrative.Polanyi then analyzes several personal American stories such as"Fainting on the Subway" and "Eating on the New York Thruway" -- for the propositions they expressabout American culture and draws these propositions together in a broad compendium, or grammar, ofcultural assumptions. These chapters in particular provide perhaps the earliest and best efforts atmaking explicit the commonsense knowledge that underlies discourse and every other humanactivity.The book concludes with the creation of "The American story," a text made up of sentenceseach of which can be seen as a compressed form of a myriad of "real" stories told in Americanconversation. Livia Polanyi is with Bolt, Beranek and Newman. A Bradford Book.
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