Ochs, Elinor; Taylor, Carolyn; Rudolph, Dina; Smith, Ruth (1992). Storytelling as a theory-building activity. Discourse Processes, Vol 15(1): 37-72.
Abstract only. From:
through the process of story co-narration, [subjects] drew on and stimulated critical social, cognitive, and linguistic skills that underlie scientific and other scholarly discourse as they jointly constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed theories of everyday events … Storytelling among familiars constitutes a commonplace medium for socializing perspective-taking, critical thinking, and other intellectual skills that have been viewed as outcomes of formal schooling.
