Pragmatics of oral narration

Abstract

Today we see a noticeable development of oral narration, centred on the role of the “narrator” or “storyteller”, who taking the place of the traditional minstrel, focuses his literary activity on the storytelling in its purest and most genuine form.This paper concentrates on the description and analysis of the elements that appear in oral narration as a social activity. By adapting the factors established by Jakobson (issuer-narrator, receptor-public) to the literary fact of oral genre and by examining the concepts of pragmatism of communication, we highlight the fundamental role of each of the elements of this communication process.