My contribution traces the evolving notion of tellability in the study of narrative over the last thirty-odd years: Tellability was initially seen as an objective property of textual content, but research on narrative in real contexts of talk has increasingly recognized the various ways interactional factors can override content as grounds for relating a story. I advance a set of research strategies based on investigation of the discourse structures that accompany the negotiation of tellability in context and the syntactic markers of tellability, specifically requests for stories like “tell me” and “tell her,” correlating with features of recipient design in narration. This will reveal distinctions in presuppositions about who knows a story already, who else should be included, and who may conarrate, demonstrating how tellability varies from one participant to another even in the same context.

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我的贡献追溯了过去 30 多年叙事研究中可讲述性概念的演变：可讲述性最初被视为文本内容的客观属性，但对真实谈话语境中的叙事研究越来越认识到交互因素的各种方式可以覆盖内容作为关联故事的依据。我提出了一套研究策略，基于对伴随语境中可讲述性协商的话语结构和可讲述性的句法标记的调查，特别是对“告诉我”和“告诉她”等故事的要求，与接收者设计的特征相关在叙述中。这将揭示关于谁已经知道一个故事，还有谁应该被包括在内以及谁可能会讲述的预设的区别，