Neal R Norrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 735341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neal R Norrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neal R |
| FAMILY NAME | Norrick |
| SIGNATURE | NORRICK N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saarland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 633 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The epistemics of narrative performance in conversation
This article investigates the flow of information in conversational narrative performance in light of research on the epistemics of talk in interaction and epistemic vigilance on the part of story recipients. Based on examples from a range of corpora, it reassesses the relationship between storytellers and recipients consistent with recipient design, and investigates cases of too little and too much information in narrative. Viewing narrative per…
Requests for stories: The evolving notion of tellability in narrative studies
My contribution traces the evolving notion of tellability in the study of narrative over the last thirty-odd years: Tellability was initially seen as an objective property of textual content, but research on narrative in real contexts of talk has increasingly recognized the various ways interactional factors can override content as grounds for relating a story. I advance a set of research strategies based on investigation of the discourse structu…
Pragmatics is the Way of the Future”: An interview with Neal Norrick
Withdrawn: Narratives of vicarious experience in professional and workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue
Narratives of Vicarious Experience in Professional and Workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue
Pragmatics and Its Interfaces
Negation in narrative: Why say what didn’t happen
Negation in narrative has been described primarily as a resource for expressing evaluation, and secondarily in its role in establishing orientation, but this article investigates a range of ways negated statements can contribute directly to complicating action. Negation works through presupposition in the rhetorical figure of paralipsis with phrases like “to say nothing of.” Reporting “I don’t see how she got in” presupposes that she got in. Sema…
Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts and Tony Veale: Cognitive Linguistics and Humor Research
Subject Area, Terminology, Proverb Definitions, Proverb Features
Interdisciplinary perspectives on pragmatics: A festschrift for Jonathan Culpeper
Narrative illocutionary acts direct and indirect
Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies
closes his paper summarizing several new theories on the creation of proverbs.Outi Lauhakangas' "Categorization of Proverbs" shows different ways of classifying the unilingual and multilingual proverb material.The author explains the history, background, aims and motives of these efforts, presents and compares two serious attempts to systemize the international proverb lore -G.L. Permyakov's Logico-semiotic Classification of Proverbs and Proverbi…
Aggression in conversational storytelling performance
This article explores the forms and functions of aggression in conversational narrative performance based on a range of corpora representing a wide variety of storytelling types, speakers and contexts. The primary teller of a conversational narrative may report aggression and hostility in story content, while storytelling also provides a forum for the expression of aggression by all participants toward features of story content. Moreover, recipie…
Stories of vicarious experience in speeches by Barack Obama
Stories of personal experience have been a staple of research on narrative, while stories of vicarious experience have remained largely ignored, though they offer special insights into issues of epistemic authority and telling rights, coherence and evaluation, contextualization and stance-taking. This article investigates the largely unexplored matters of why conversationalists tell stories about other people, how they establish their authority t…
Narratives of vicarious experience in conversation
Stories of personal experience have been a staple of research on narrative, while stories of vicarious experience have remained largely ignored, though they offer special insights into issues of epistemic authority, telling rights, and evaluation. This article seeks to show that stories of vicarious experience can fulfill the same functions as stories of personal experience in conversation, illustrating a point in an argument, sharing news, and f…
Remembering for narration and autobiographical memory
This article proposes a notion of “remembering for narration” based on Slobin’s (1987) concept of “thinking for speaking” to circumvent issues of autobiographical memory and focus on narrative practices. It suggests that we recognize a special cognitive mode of remembering for narration, which involves selecting from episodic memory those details that fit some conceptualization of the event for present purposes, and are readily encodable in the l…
Swearing in literary prose fiction and conversational narrative
This article compares swearing in novels with swearing in everyday talk based on a representative sample of British and American prose fiction and a several large corpora of natural conversation. Swearing allegedly makes fictional dialogue more realistic, but up till now no one has attempted a systematic comparison of fictional and natural conversational swearing. Fiction writers incorporate swearing into their dialogue to delineate characters an…
Foundations of Pragmatics
Open publication Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories and approaches as well as key concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the traditional and most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The in-depth articles provide reliable orientational ove…
Listening practices in English conversation: The responses responses elicit
Conversational recipe telling
Laughter before the punch line during the performance of narrative jokes in conversation
Analysis of spontaneous joke-telling performances from recordings of natural conversation shows that they elicit laughter at various junctures, not just after the final punch line. Some joke texts contain multiple punch lines or funny passages in their set up, but much of the laughter during the telling of a joke is keyed to other features of the joke text or to the performance itself. In particular, joke recipients often laugh in response to the…
Incorporating recipient evaluations into stories
Evaluation constitutes a central feature of personal stories in conversation. Storytellers introduce evaluation into their narratives in various ways, including cases of appropriating assessments offered by their listeners. A storyteller may orient to the content of listener assessments and respond to them in various (positive or negative) ways, suspending the narrative in progress to comment or altering its direction. Shared assessments can lead…
The interplay of humor and conflict in conversation and scripted humorous performance
In this article we explore the interrelationship of humor and conflict. We focus first on contexts where humor provides a constructive means of attenuating conflict and ending disagreements in conversation. Then we turn to conflict talk as a source of humor. We identify three characteristic strategies for constructing humor around patterns of conflict talk, both in everyday conversation and in professionally scripted dialogue. The momentum and co…
Humor in Interaction: Humor in Interaction
This article presents the state of the art of research into humor in interaction, beginning with approaches to humor in pragmatics and with relation to theorizing on politeness and gender in the second half of the 20th century, when the increasing availability of real data and transcription methods along with the rise of Conversation Analysis and interactional sociolinguistics made possible the detailed investigation of joking and joke‐telling in…
Listening practices in television celebrity interviews
Issues in conversational joking
The dark side of tellability
This article propounds a revised, two-sided notion of tellability - one which encompasses both the familiar lower-bounding side of tellability as sufficient to warrant listener interest and the generally ignored upper-bounding side where tellability merges into the no longer tellable of impropriety. It demonstrates how tellers and recipients of stories orient to the upper boundary of tellability in various ways, signalling discomfort as they appr…
Involvement and joking in conversation
Humor as a resource for mitigating conflict in interaction
Expressive illocutionary acts
Interjections as pragmatic markers
On the organization of corrective exchanges in conversation
Intertextuality in humor
Twice-told tales: Collaborative narration of familiar stories
Consideration of twice-told tales, of narrative events built around stories already familiar to the participants, offers a special perspective on conversational storytelling, because it emphasizes aspects of narration which lie beyond information exchange, problem-solving etc. This article seeks to show that the retelling of familiar stories has at least three functions: (a) fostering group rapport, (b) ratifying group membership, and (c) conveyi…
Hyperbole, extreme case formulation
Discourse markers in oral narrative
Interactional remembering in conversational narrative
Retelling stories in spontaneous conversation
Retold conversational stories provide a natural testing site for analyzing narrative. Distillation of a kernel story from separate narrative performances facilitates comparison between them and highlights their similarities and differences. This article investigates (a) immediate retelling for a newly arrived listener, (b) relating the same story for different audiences, and (c) group reconstruction of a story already familiar to those present. I…
Stock conversational witticisms
Narratives of vicarious experience in conversation
Stories of personal experience have been a staple of research on narrative, while stories of vicarious experience have remained largely ignored, though they offer special insights into issues of epistemic authority, telling rights, and evaluation. This article seeks to show that stories of vicarious experience can fulfill the same functions as stories of personal experience in conversation, illustrating a point in an argument, sharing news, and f…
Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies
closes his paper summarizing several new theories on the creation of proverbs.Outi Lauhakangas' "Categorization of Proverbs" shows different ways of classifying the unilingual and multilingual proverb material.The author explains the history, background, aims and motives of these efforts, presents and compares two serious attempts to systemize the international proverb lore -G.L. Permyakov's Logico-semiotic Classification of Proverbs and Proverbi…
On the conversational performance of narrative jokes: Toward an account of timing
Listening practices in English conversation: The responses responses elicit
Non-verbal humor and joke performance
Many jokes fall outside the province of script theory, because they depend on performance in various ways. Interactional features of the joke performance, along with pantomime, gestures, voice shifts, and so on, require modes of description separate from the verbally oriented script theory. There are significant differences between the written joke text and the oral joke performance, and these differences cast doubt on the simple extendibility of…
Conversational recipe telling
Listening practices in television celebrity interviews
A frame-theoretical analysis of verbal humor: Bisociation as Schema conflict
Stories of vicarious experience in speeches by Barack Obama
Stories of personal experience have been a staple of research on narrative, while stories of vicarious experience have remained largely ignored, though they offer special insights into issues of epistemic authority and telling rights, coherence and evaluation, contextualization and stance-taking. This article investigates the largely unexplored matters of why conversationalists tell stories about other people, how they establish their authority t…
Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk
Repetition in canned jokes and spontaneous conversational joking1
Expressive illocutionary acts
The lexicalization of pragmatic functions
Nondirect speech acts and double binds
The role of extralinguistic knowledge in lexical relations
In addition to semantic lexical relations which can be represented by intersecting, hierarchically structured classes, relations between lexical entries within non‐adjacent categories must be described. Semantic and pragmatic via‐rules provide a natural account of such relations. A via‐rule attached to a lexical entry identifies another entry related to it, and cites the semantic or pragmatic principle establishing the connection. Extralinguistic…
Semiotic Principles in Semantic Theory
This study represents a contribution to the theory of meaning in natural language. It proposes a semantic theory containing a set of regular relational principles. These principles enable semantic theory to describe connections from the lexical reading of a word to its figurative contextual reading, from one variant reading of a polysemous lexical item to another, from the idiomatic to its literal reading or to the literal reading(s) of one or mo…
Stock conversational witticisms
How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs
A frame-theoretical analysis of verbal humor: Bisociation as Schema conflict
Geoffrey N. Leech. Meaning and the English verb
Intertextuality in humor
How Paradox Means
Clearly, on the purely literal level, this statement must count as selfcontradictory: It is marrying a farmer that does make a woman a farmer's wife. Now, in order to laugh appreciatively about the apparent contradiction, the hearers must have done some rapid processing which led them to view it as an intentional paradox, with a second, consistent interpretation. Yet neither traditional rhetoric nor recent pragmatic and poetic descriptions of par…
On the organization of corrective exchanges in conversation
Wh-questions with guesses in tag position
Repetition in canned jokes and spontaneous conversational joking1
Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk
Involvement and joking in conversation
Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk
Metalingual humor in Pinter's early plays
(1995). Metalingual humor in Pinter's early plays. English Studies: Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 253-263
Hunh-tags and evidentiality in conversation
Twice-told tales: Collaborative narration of familiar stories
Consideration of twice-told tales, of narrative events built around stories already familiar to the participants, offers a special perspective on conversational storytelling, because it emphasizes aspects of narration which lie beyond information exchange, problem-solving etc. This article seeks to show that the retelling of familiar stories has at least three functions: (a) fostering group rapport, (b) ratifying group membership, and (c) conveyi…
Retelling Again
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Retelling stories in spontaneous conversation
Retold conversational stories provide a natural testing site for analyzing narrative. Distillation of a kernel story from separate narrative performances facilitates comparison between them and highlights their similarities and differences. This article investigates (a) immediate retelling for a newly arrived listener, (b) relating the same story for different audiences, and (c) group reconstruction of a story already familiar to those present. I…
Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk
This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral narrative through analysis of a wider range of natural data, including personal anecdotes told for humor, put-down stories told for self-aggrandizement, f…
On the conversational performance of narrative jokes: Toward an account of timing
Discourse markers in oral narrative
Linguistics (55 works) · Psychology (50 works) · Philosophy (43 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (36 works) · Computer Science (32 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (31 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (31 works) · Philosophy (28 works) · Narrative (26 works) · Conversation (23 works)