Developing a Guideline for the Labovian-Structural Analysis of Oral Narratives in Japanese

ArXi:2603.29347v1 Announce Type: new Narrative analysis is a cornerstone of qualitative research. One leading approach is the Labovian model, but its application is labor-intensive, requiring a holistic, recursive interpretive process that moves back and forth between individual parts of the transcript and the transcript as a whole. Existing Labovian datasets are available only in English, which differs markedly from Japanese in terms of grammar and dis