Relating Narrative Events in Translation

نویسندگان

  • Ruth A. Berman
  • Dan I. Slobin
چکیده

About two decades ago, Ruth Berman and I set out to explore the development of “the ability to relate events in narrative” (Berman 1988; Berman & Slobin 1987, 1994). We devoted a great deal of research attention to a seemingly simple task: oral narratives elicited by a picture storybook created for children, Frog, where are you? (Mayer 1969), originally discovered as a research tool by Michael Bamberg (1985, 1987). The “frog story” has proven to be an exceptionally useful tool, used by now in dozens of languages and fueling far more research than we could have imagined (see recent papers, and a full bibliography of frog story studies, in Strömqvist & Verhoeven 2004). The strength of the frog story lies in the wordless presentation of a readily understood plot, with sufficient complexity to allow for detailed analysis of temporal, causal, and spatial dimensions of events.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008