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The present study examines the activity of storytelling at dinnertime in English‐speaking, Caucasian‐American families. Our findings demonstrate that, through the process of story co‐narration, family members draw upon and stimulate critical social, cognitive, and linguistic skills that underlie scientific and other scholarly discourse as they jointly construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct theories of everyday events. Each story is potentially a theory of a set of events in that it contains an explanation, which may then be overtly challenged and reworked by co‐narrators. Our data suggest that complex theory‐building through storytelling is promoted by (and constitutive of) interlocutors’ familiarity with one another and/or the narrative events. As such, long before children enter a classroom, everyday storytelling among familiars constitutes a commonplace medium for socializing perspective‐taking, critical thinking, and other intellectual skills that have been viewed as outcomes of formal schooling.
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Elinor Ochs
Carolyn E. Taylor
Dina E. Rudolph
Discourse Processes
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Purdue University West Lafayette
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6b4a4abefa4d4d4aa7f99 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01638539209544801