Variation Analysis.
William Labov holds a materialistic concept of language.
Telsur/Atlas Project.
The Vernacular.
Skeleton of a narrative.
Telling a narrative requires that this narrative carry enough interest for the audience to justify its telling.
One or two more clauses summarizing the story.
Information about the place, time, the participants or the situation.
Sequential clauses that describe the events.
Set of complicating actions which follow or coincide with the most reportable event.
A free clause at the end of the story which indicates the end of a narrative.
Reportable event.
Most reportable event.
The extent to which listeners/readers believe that events happened in the way the narrator describes them.
Events that link the orientation to the most reportable event.
An ideological framework whithin which events are seen or presented by the narrator.
An event in one the narrator becomes aware of through memory, emotional reaction or internal sensation.
Events have to be known to the narrator through experience.
The linear presentation of event clauses for the assignment of reference time.
Narrative descriptive orientation may preface the narrative action, or it may be embedded within the complicating action.
The subjectivity involved in the process of making a point when telling a story.
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