ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 provides illustrative examples of how the contextualized multimodal framework can be applied productively to describe the system governing the execution of applied storytelling performances in general, as well as to analyse individual storytelling performance held in a particular institution for a specific functional purpose as a unique realization of the general system. The chapter first discusses the corpus of live storytelling performances from which the illustrative examples are taken. It then outlines the analytical procedure, elaborating on the steps taken to capture the multimodal features of a live storytelling performance for a detailed empirical analysis. Using the framework, the chapter presents a first-of-its-kind examination and discussion of narrativity specified for the two sample applied storytelling performances.
