The value of narrative in many types of writing in the social sciences and other fields has been increasingly recognized. Twenty-two contributions discuss aircraft accident reports, academic
conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports, oral and written accounts of illness, and journalistic obituaries, among other types of writing--with analysis of the structure and content
of these narratives in light of narrative theory, offering a compendium of interest to anyone who writes as well as anyone who reads. The editors are affiliated as follows: Gotti (English
language and translation, U. of Beramo, Italy) and Guinda (applied linguistics, Polytechnic U. of Madrid, Spain). The book is not indexed. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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