Abstract
Story-telling is one of the activities. That is, story-telling is doing a specific job with various moral implications within actual interactional setting. Thus, we have to examine stories regarding their specific job within the interactional setting, independent of, and prior to, questions tied to the representation of the reality. Analysis of talk-in-interaction on story-telling concentrates on this point. In this respect, this paper takes up the stories about tonchibo that have been told among Sado islanders in Niigata Prefecture and describes the way those stories are achieved as socially shared “oral tradition” relevantly consisting of the actual course of interaction. Through this descroption, it is shown that oral tradition is an interactional phenomenon to be investigated in its own right.
