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"Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual
Perspectives" edited by Sven Stro mqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the
much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's
successful "frog-story studies" book, "Relating Events in
Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study" (1994).
Working closely with Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors
have brought together a wide range of scholars who, inspired by the
1994 book, have all used Mercer Mayer's "Frog, Where Are You?" as a
basis for their research. The new book, which is divided into two
parts, features a broad linguistic and cultural diversity.
Contributions focusing on crosslinguistic perspectives make up the
first part of the book. This part is concluded by Dan Slobin with
an analysis and overview discussion of factors of linguistic
typology in frog-story research.
The second part offers a variety of theoretical and methodological
perspectives, all dealing with contextual variation of narrative
construction in a wide sense: variation across medium/modality
(speech, writing, signing), genre variation (the specific frog
story narrative compared to other genres), frog story narrations
from the perspective of theory of mind, and from the perspective of
bilingualism and second language acquisition. Several of the
contributions to the new book manuscript also deal with
developmental perspectives, but, in distinction to the 1994 book,
that is not the only focused issue. The second part is initiated by
Ruth Berman with an analysis of the role of context in developing
narrative abilities.
The new book represents a rich overview and illustration of recent
advances intheoretical and methodological approaches to the
crosslinguistic study of narrative discourse. A red thread
throughout the book is that crosslinguistic variation is not merely
a matter of variation in form, but also in content and aspects of
cognition. A recurrent perspective on language and thoughtis that
of Dan Slobin's theory of "thinking for speaking," an approach to
cognitive consequences of linguistic diversity. The book ends with
an epilogue by Herbert Clark, "Variations on a Ranarian
Theme."
Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual
Perspectives edited by Sven Stroemqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the
much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's
successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative:
A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with
Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors have brought together a
wide range of scholars who, inspired by the 1994 book, have all
used Mercer Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? as a basis for their
research. The new book, which is divided into two parts, features a
broad linguistic and cultural diversity. Contributions focusing on
crosslinguistic perspectives make up the first part of the book.
This part is concluded by Dan Slobin with an analysis and overview
discussion of factors of linguistic typology in frog-story
research. The second part offers a variety of theoretical and
methodological perspectives, all dealing with contextual variation
of narrative construction in a wide sense: variation across
medium/modality (speech, writing, signing), genre variation (the
specific frog story narrative compared to other genres), frog story
narrations from the perspective of theory of mind, and from the
perspective of bilingualism and second language acquisition.
Several of the contributions to the new book manuscript also deal
with developmental perspectives, but, in distinction to the 1994
book, that is not the only focused issue. The second part is
initiated by Ruth Berman with an analysis of the role of context in
developing narrative abilities. The new book represents a rich
overview and illustration of recent advances in theoretical and
methodological approaches to the crosslinguistic study of narrative
discourse. A red thread throughout the book is that crosslinguistic
variation is not merely a matter of variation in form, but also in
content and aspects of cognition. A recurrent perspective on
language and thought is that of Dan Slobin's theory of "thinking
for speaking," an approach to cognitive consequences of linguistic
diversity. The book ends with an epilogue by Herbert Clark,
"Variations on a Ranarian Theme."
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