Story patterns in oral narratives : a variationist critique of Labov and Waletzky's model of narrative schemas

Labov and Waletzky's (1967) influential six-schema model of personal narratives has often been considered to make claims regarding a 'universal' narrative structure (Hurst, 1990; Hymes, 1996). This study tests how far variations in personal narratives at a schematic level (that is, wh...

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Main Author: Lambrou, Marina
Published: Middlesex University 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419746