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| Title: | A Sad Email from Baghdad: A narrative-discourse analysis |
| Author: | Bahaa-Eddin M. Mazid |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | United Arab Emirates University |
| Linguistic Field: | Discourse Analysis |
| Abstract: | The paper provides a narrative-discourse analysis of an email from Baghdad where a brother recounts the story of his sister's tragic death in a gunbattle between the police and unidentified "gunmen." A partial review and brief theoretical notes on the email genre and narrative are given. Then, a discussion of tellability and telling rights is followed by an analysis of the email narrative based on Labov's model, typical characteristics of narrative as suggested by Toolan (2001), with an elaboration on the email as a written narrative and cohesion and coherence therein, and storyteller's roles as synthesized by Koven (2002). Comparatively less elaborate remarks are made on narration as action, narrator involvement, benefits of narrating and the metaphor of life-as-a-journey in the email. |
| Type: | Individual Paper |
| Status: | Completed |
| Publication Info: | Cairo Studies in English, 2006, pp. 1-22. |
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