MORE THAN PERSONAL NARRATIVES IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC LECTURES.

Although narratives and particularly personal narratives have been widely investigated, their use in academic lectures has received comparatively little attention. This study focuses on the narratives employed in 20 university lectures of 4 different academic disciplines using two corpora: the MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Spoken Academic English) from the University of Michigan, and a corpus recorded in several British universities. This paper reveals important results about the use of narratives in lectures, especially related to the narrative types and their connection with the lecture content, the narrative function, how narratives embed in the lecturer's discourse, and the structure of the narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]