INSTRUCTION: Answer question in relation to text.
TEXT
Everyday conversational narratives of personal
experience might be regarded as the country
cousins of more well-wrought narratives. The work
of archaeologist Nicholas Toth revolutionized the
[5] understanding of Stone Age tools. Prior to Toth’s
studies, the received perspective was that early
hominids chipped a cobble in such a way that it
could be used as a pick or a hand ax. Researchers
considered the splintered flakes as waste products
[10] and examined them for information about techniques
used to shape the stone core tool. While others were
analyzing the morphological shapes and cognitive
correlates of the chipped cores, Toth, in a radical
turnabout, discovered that the flakes were the primary
[15] tools and that the large stone was an incidental by-
product, possibly a secondary tool. The flakes turned
out to be “extremely effective cutting tools” for animals,
wood, hides, and other work. We posit that, like stone
flakes, mundane conversational narratives of personal
[20] experience constitute the prototype of narrative activity
rather than the flawed by-product of more artful and
planned narrative discourse
OCHS, E. & CAPPS, L. (2001) Living Narrative – creating lives in everyday storytelling. Harvard University Press, England, p.3.
Glossary:
Chip – small piece of something, like wood or glass, mainly when it has broken off something.
Cobble – small round-shaped stone; cobblestones.
Well-wrought – skillfully shaped or decorated
O termo “as” é empregado com o mesmo sentido em “could be used as a pick” (linha 08) e em
