The language of life and death the transformation of experience in oral narrative - Labov, William (Cambridge, [Englnad] Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Introduction to the langauge of life and death -- Narrative analysis -- The escalation of violence -- Confrontations with death -- Premonitions and communication with the dead -- Margie Knott: "Her confrontation with the neighbors" -- Glora Stein: "They stoned the house" -- Rose Norman: "The death of her younger sister" -- Mary Costa "The death of her youngest daughter" -- Cache county -- The vernacular origin of epic style -- Historians' use of narrative -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: "The death of Monmouth" -- S.T. Bindoff: "The death of Elizabeth" -- The narrative view of death and life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Keywords: Discourse analysis, Narrative; Storytelling; Narration (Rhetoric)