Abstracts Archive

Our presentation focuses on how non-native speakers have trouble identifying storytelling in talk-in-interaction. More precisely, we will offer a variety of stories found in different situations that one may encounter in their daily lives and that may differ from one language to another. We will dis...

This study investigated storytelling among two Japanese L2 learners of English during a five-month study abroad program in the US or Canada and explores their progression over time concerning aspects of turn-taking. 

The development of narrative competence is considered one of the basic competences in language acquisition. Children need to learn how to construct coherent stories, how to build coherence and meaning. Every language has its own linguistic features that come into play. How do children who grow up mu...

Our study focuses on a 10-year corpus of suicide prevention chat rooms: interactions take place between callers in a distressing, vulnerable situation who connect to the chat room, and non-professional volunteer listeners, who are responsible for receiving the callers' words and are trained in s...

Through this submitted contribution, we present 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-interac...

The presentation is concerned with semi-guided story-telling as elicitation method in Spanish, Portuguese, Aymara, Guaraní, Maltese, Sicilian, Papia Kristang and Chabacano. Therefore the experiences and results of the use of a picture story as stimulus for story telling are analyzed and evaluated i...