The Roles of Participants in a Storytelling Event
The Roles of Participants in a Storytelling Event

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the roles adopted during the storytelling event by individual participants are discussed. During field research carried out in the Bovec area in the northwest part of Slovenia, whole storytelling meetings, at which a number of folklore events (complete stories) occurred, were audio-recorded. Phonetic transcriptions of these meetings were made from the recorded material, including next to the stories also the participants’ conversations in-between the stories. On the basis of the functions of active interventions in the storytelling process, it is possible to categorise recipients under six roles: motivator, assistant, inquirer, yea-sayer/nay-sayer, complementor and commentator. A higherdiversity of roles of the participants is obvious in groups of three or more participants, particularly if there is at least one recipient who knows the storyteller’s repertoire.

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