Narrativity in Action: Language, Culture and Text

Magdalena Grabowska /
Grzegorz Grzegorczyk /
Piotr Kallas

Narrativity in Action:
Language, Culture and Text

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This publication was financially supported by the University of Gdańsk.

Cover Illustration: ©Magdalena Grabowska

ISSN 2364-7558

ISBN 978-3-631-73065-2 (Print)

E-ISBN 978-3-631-73079-9 (E-PDF)

E-ISBN 978-3-631-73080-5 (EPUB)

E-ISBN 978-3-631-73081-2 (MOBI)

DOI 10.3726/b13033

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About the authors

Magdalena Grabowska’s scholarly interests focus on forms of communicative behaviour in society, specifically in religious groups.

Grzegorz Grzegorczyk’s main interests and research concentrate on interactive linguistics, specifically the issues of dialogicality, languaging and interactivity, particularly in the area of coaching, tutoring and therapy.

Piotr Kallas’ scientific interests include Jewish themes and motifs in English- language literature as well as historical narratives and crime fiction.

The authors work as Assistant Professors at the Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translation of the University of Gdańsk.

About the book

This monograph highlights the significance of narrative tools for the analysis of language behaviour in various social situations and considers narrativity as a natural human way of making sense. Through narration we develop unique modes of comprehending reality and dealing with its complicated structure. The analysis elaborates narrating as a dialogical experience and highlights its important role in coaching and in personalised education. Additionally it throws light on the modern city narrative as a literary genre. Lastly the authors develop the aspects of narrativity in the act of conversion in evangelical churches as an instance of identity enactment explaining the modern trends in preaching in charismatic evangelical churches.

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Contents

Preface

Part 1

Grzegorz Grzegorczyk

Stories, Dialogue and Languaging: Narrating as a Dialogical Activity

Grzegorz Grzegorczyk

Coaching in the Narrative Perspective: a Constructivist View

Grzegorz Grzegorczyk

Narrativity and Language in Personalized Education

Part 2

Piotr Kallas

The Stones and the Stories: a Study of Modern City Narratives

Piotr Kallas

Distant Mirrors: Medieval London in the Narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer and Peter Ackroyd

Part 3

Magdalena Grabowska

Enacting Identity in the Conversion Narrative. The Case of Evangelical Testimony

Magdalena Grabowska

Traces of Narrative Preaching in Evangelical Sermons. The Case of a Charismatic Church Preaching