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This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:da1d4e1c6802413782eeb58a4e7a50e6 2024-09-15T18:26:06+00:00 Berättelse, beskrivning, auktoritet Alf Arvidsson 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21601 https://doaj.org/article/da1d4e1c6802413782eeb58a4e7a50e6 DA EN NO SV dan eng nor swe Föreningen Kulturella Perspektiv https://publicera.kb.se/kp/article/view/21601 https://doaj.org/toc/1102-7908 https://doaj.org/toc/2004-0288 doi:10.54807/kp.v23.21601 1102-7908 2004-0288 https://doaj.org/article/da1d4e1c6802413782eeb58a4e7a50e6 Kulturella Perspektiv, Vol 23, Iss 4 (2014) Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v23.21601 2024-09-02T15:34:39Z This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the result tends to give a general description without a clear narrative structure, there is a narrative closure implicit in the theme of the evening: when the floating work ended, the social life described also ended. Furthermore, the relevance of the storytelling is not only to find in the pride of the local history, but also in giving opportunity to comment on the contemporary situation where the hydroelectric power plant regulates the river and affects the landscape and living conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift 23 4 |
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This article analyses the flow of speeches during a ”storytelling evening” in a northern Sweden village, where people had been invited to tell stories about the times and the work when timber and tarbarrels were floated down the river. Focus is on how speakers claim authority and entitlement to have something to say, and how a large-scale hyper-narrative of “the floating epoch” is negotiated. Discussed in William Labov’s terms, although the result tends to give a general description without a clear narrative structure, there is a narrative closure implicit in the theme of the evening: when the floating work ended, the social life described also ended. Furthermore, the relevance of the storytelling is not only to find in the pride of the local history, but also in giving opportunity to comment on the contemporary situation where the hydroelectric power plant regulates the river and affects the landscape and living conditions. |
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