TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
T1  - Generational styles in oral storytelling
BT  - What can be learned from narrative priming?
JF  - Narrative inquiry
N2  - When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental ‘Narrative Priming’ setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students’ narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online.
KW  - generational styles
KW  - priming
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - experimental
KW  - positioning
KW  - narrative templates
KW  - French
KW  - doing storytelling
KW  - narratives from personal experience
KW  - spoken language
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger
SN  - 1387-6740
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -