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Relationships & Family > Family Bonding Telling stories as a way of improving family communication

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The telling of a story is a narrative performance. As a human communication practice, performing narrative combines the "doing" of storytelling with what is "done" in the performance of a story. Family storytelling is a communication practice in which families, remember, transmit, and innovate stories through generations. It is a routine of daily life, and is a product of family interaction.

The author emphasizes storytelling as a way of "doing" family. The mundane experience of performing narrativelistening to and telling storiessuggests that storytelling is first and foremost a hu...

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