Open AccessSerielle Narration als Konstruktion.
Author(s) -
Rita Finkbeiner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
linguistik online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1615-3014
DOI - 10.13092/lo.96.5528
Subject(s) - narrative , repetition (rhetorical device) , variation (astronomy) , feature (linguistics) , linguistics , key (lock) , literature , psychology , computer science , art , philosophy , physics , computer security , astrophysics
This paper aims at examining in detail a specific narrative pattern that is often found in picturebook stories for preschool children, namely, serial narration, or narration with repeated sequences. It is argued that serial narration is a form of linguistic routinization at the level of an actual text exemplar, by which a recurrent textual pattern emerges sequentially. In the first part of the paper, I analyze a number of both traditional and contemporary picturebooks and show that a key feature is repetition with variation at the level of the episode. In the second part of the paper, I investigate potential implications of the systematic utilization of serial narration for language acquisition.