Recontextualized Knowledge by Olaf Kramer Markus Gottschling

Author:Olaf Kramer, Markus Gottschling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2020-11-23T11:31:46.861000+00:00

Example 4 shows an anecdote in a TED talk by Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and well-known author. In her talk, she recounts a telephone conversation she had. She uses direct speech, which could increase proximity: the audience might experience the anecdote as if overhearing the conversation. Brown uses an informal style register, close to everyday conversation, with phrases such as “I was like…”, and “and she went…”. In example 5, from the Research Presentations corpus, the speaker describes a conversation she, as a lecturer, had with her students. Although some of the descriptions in this anecdote are quite detailed and set the scene, such as the “puzzled and surprised” looks of the students, she rather uses indirect speech to describe her conversation with the students (“I told them…”, and “I added that…”). This could make the audience feel less directly involved, compared to Brown’s anecdote.

Overall, the TED corpus contains anecdotes that seem more closely related to the concepts of evidentia and enérgeia, in which a situation is depicted vividly to the audience’s mind’s eye (see section 2.1). This is illustrated by example 6, a fragment of an anecdote by novelist Elizabeth Gilbert (a “non-scientist” in the TED corpus).

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