Introduction- The Search for a Cultural Niche: Showing the Pear Film in a Mayan CommunityThe Deployment of Consciousness in the Production of a NarrativeA Comparative Analysis of Oral Narrative Strategies: Athenian Greek and American EnglishFactors Influencing Lexical Choice in NarrativeReferential Choice in English and Japanese Narrative DiscourseBeyond Definiteness: The Trace of Identity in DiscourseSubjecthood and ConsciousnessAppendix: Transcriptions of Twenty English NarrativesAuthor IndexSubject Index