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Contributions to the study of oral narrative frequently disregard or ignore German scholarship on the subject. This is particularly unfortunate, since results obtained from the analysis of German conversational narfatives should be compared with those derived from English stories, and the models constructed on the basis of these two 'schools 1 should be made compatible with one another. The closeness of the English and German languages in particular should have alerted discourse analysts to the German explanation and models. As usual, language seems to have been a major barrier and in the absence of translations of German academic articles this is perhaps no wonder. The only English collection of German scholarship on the problem I know of is the special issue of Poetics, vol. 15 (1986), and German stories are there either rendered in (untranslated) German or only in English translation -an editorial misjudgment of the highest order. The stories quoted in German remain incomprehensible to the non-German Speaker, and the translated stories (such äs those in the Wodak paper) fail to provide syntactic or morphological (tense) Information, rendering them entirely useless to an informed

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Author
Monika Fludernik
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
1992
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)