LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 23:6 June 2023
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Narrative Skills in Tamil Speaking Young Adults

Ms. Swetha S and Dr. Satish Kumaraswamy, Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing

Abstract

Narratives can be described as natural cognitive and linguistic forms through which individuals attempt to order, organize and express meaning. Through narratives individuals make sense of their experiences and represent themselves to others. Narrative analysis is an approach taken to interview data that is concerned with understanding how and why people talk about their lives as a story or a series of stories. The purpose of the study was to access narrative skills in Tamil speaking young adults. The study was carried out in 20 young Tamil speaking adults which included 10 male and 10 female. The results obtained from trouble source, repair and resolution among male and female cross comparison were nonsignificant.

Introduction

Language can be defined as a socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols. The conventional or socially shared code of language allows listener and speaker or writer and reader of the same language to exchange information. In fact, “communication is the primary function of language” (Muma,1978). Communication is the process of exchanging information and ideas between participants. The process is an active one that involves encoding, transmitting, and decoding the intended message. It requires a sender and a receiver and each communication partner must be alert to the informational need of the other to ensure that messages are conveyed effectively and that intended meanings are preserved.

Narrative is a form of discourse. It is an uninterrupted stream of language modified by the speaker to capture and hold the listener's interest and attention (Owens, 2001). Narratives differ from conversations in a number of ways. When producing a narrative, the speaker produces a monologue throughout and must presuppose the information needed by the listener. In addition, the speaker must present all the information in an organized way by sequencing events so that the elements of the narrative are related and lead to some conclusion.

Constructing a narrative requires an appropriate use of language as a communication tool, which is a question of using language in a given situation and considering the interlocutor and the context of the interaction (Coquet, 2005). Moreover, constructing a narrative requires managing both its coherence, i.e., proposing a story structured in several steps at the temporal, causal and thematic levels (at the level of the overall macrostructure) and its cohesion which is defined by the creation of links between two statements (at the microstructure level).

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Ms. Swetha S
Final Post Graduate Student (Corresponding Author)
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
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Dr. Satish Kumaraswamy, Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing
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