To tell stories about past or imagined experiences or events fulfils different functions in talk-in-interaction. Since participants are fully involved in this activity, storytelling in talk-in-interaction is a dynamic and embodied semiotic phenomenon that unfolds sequentially within discursive and interactional contexts and the emerging stories are motivated by these contexts and their very concrete linguistic shape depends on them.
Through this submitted contribution, we present, on the one hand, the recent NARRANDO project from which we aim to gain a better understanding of the transversal mobilization and discursive integration of lexical, syntactic and macro-syntactic, prosodic, and bodily resources of Spanish storytelling in talk-in-interaction on the empirical basis of linguistic and multimodally annotated ecological corpus data from different varieties of Spanish and from different communication contexts. On the other hand, we propose a brief multidimensional analysis of an excerpt from our data to illustrate our objectives. The methodological approach adopted draws, among others, from interactional linguistics (Charles Goodwin, Elisabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting) and the specific French scientific tradition of oral syntax (Claire Blanche-Benveniste), whose analytical level of the "macro-syntax", intermediate between syntax and discourse, has shown its strength for the analysis of spoken language.
The NARRANDO project is organized according to three interfaces put into perspective:
- syntax-prosody with members of the LLL lab (Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique, Orléans, France) and of the Romanisches Seminar (Freiburg, Allemagne);
- syntax-interaction / multimodality with members of the ICAR lab (Interactions Corpus Apprentissages Représentations, Lyon, France) and of the LLL lab;
- and prosody-interaction / multimodality with members of the Romanisches Seminar and of the ICAR lab.
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