Subject area: Linguistics
Course level: Level 2
Course length: one semester
This course will examine the essential role of ‘storytelling’ in a number of domains, including the family, the development of the individual, professional life and social life generally. We will analyse narratives within the conventional linguistic and sociolinguistic frameworks, and will explore cultural differences in what constitutes a story and how a story is told, as well as cross-cultural similarities. You will record and analyse narratives of personal experience for class presentation.