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"story time" and "discourse time"

What is the difference between "story time"  and "discourse time"?


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Story time will precede discourse time since story time is one-way in that the teller relates and the listener listens. This may be followed by discourse time, which is two-way, where the story teller can raise several issues relating to the story and the listener will respond or the listener will raise a number of questions relating to the story and the story teller will answer the questions.
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"Story time" is the duration of events in a narrative when they are juxtaposed chronologically. "discourse time" is the duration of events in a narrative, as they are written formally , for example, flashback and flash forward
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The following will help to inform you of the difference between discourse and story telling--In the word 'discourse' you will notice that for the most part, it is two-sided.  It is a discussion or a forum between two or more individuals.  Discourse is almost always the truth.

Story-telling is exactly what it says--it is a one-sided narrative where one person is telling what happened [true or not] to another individual[s].

 Discourse-Ø     serious speech or piece of writingØ                 serious conversationØ                 language used in a particular contextØ                 reasoning abilityØ                 seriously speak on a topicØ                 to have a conversation  Story Telling-Ø     factual of fictional narrativeØ                 a short fictional piece of proseØ                 plot of fiction or dramaØ                 account of factsØ                 falsehood [not true]Ø                 to orally tell something
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Iwillsurvive
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Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have

hmmm

I think one is the time of the story, and one is the time of the reader.

Like if you have a book that deals with the past, but the writer is from this century, the characters will speak in regular modern English, and not in the English that was spoken when the story takes place.

But I'm not sure...

I guess I should have listened more in class. 
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story time is the time that takes for things in the story to happen, discourse time is the time the narrative communicates them in.

so "he lived there for 20 years" 20 years - story time. one sentence - discourse time. 

 the interaction between them is used to create a multitude of effects.

i think it is from Gennet.
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