Indexing narrative metalepsis in German conversational story-telling

The purpose of this study is to show that direct speech in narratives introduced by “von wegen” (‘like’) and “nach dem Motto” (‘along the lines of’) can be analyzed as a powerful means transform stretch talk into massive “stance index” which transcends boundaries between narrator’s world narrated terms narrative metalepsis. “Von are non-canonical reporting frames syntactically flexible semantically facilitate transformation “category-animation”. For these reasons, they employed spontaneously spoken talk-in-interaction make it possible shape creatively order position oneself, other discourse participants characters committed or non-committed what seen relevant normative point reference. way used construct positions evaluate grasped schematically slightly revised extended version Du Bois’ triangle”.