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"Crappy New Year": Evaluation, Stance And Drinking Stories, Martin Edward Pfeiffer
"Crappy New Year": Evaluation, Stance And Drinking Stories, Martin Edward Pfeiffer
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis is an examination of drinking stories and how authors, through linguistic means, achieve narrative, social, and cultural goals. Language is a biological fact of Homo sapiens and narrative is a universal method by which humans make sense of their world. Humans’ primeval relationship with alcohol is an expression of the innate desire to achieve altered states of consciousness. To study drinking stories is to study a manifestation of the essence of humanity. This research employs the narrative theories of Labov (1997) and Labov and Waletzky (1967) combined with Du Bois’s (2007) model of stance. I focus on the …