Examples of teller

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
As in troubles talk, never mind is flexible enough to allow usage by both teller and recipient.
Thus, although a narrator's views are evident covertly through her choice of story, the overt message emanates from the characters or earlier tellers.
Are the writers of "political statements" the same as the tellers of these "folktales"?
The examples suggest that the onus is on the recipient, who somehow satisfies the expectations created by the tellers.
In the examples cited above, the recipients prompt the tellers by asking questions.
Under the proper circumstances it can instead prompt more talk concerning the teller's misfortune, as the following case demonstrates.
With each telling the tale became further encrusted with theatrical artifice and literary doctrine, even as the tellers advertised simplicity.
To this extent, the recipient needs to be perceptive toward the teller's subtle signals.
The telling - the way the tale gets to be told by different tellers - is the object of analysis here.
Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist's criticism.
With these devices the recipients support the tellers, and there is no further prompting from the recipients.
Narratives thus appear to be less about truth or falsity than about manifestations of particular cultural ways in which the tellers interpret their own experiences.
The analysis illustrates how narratives can yield insights into collective institutional memory and individual tellers' stances and positionings toward institutions.
Even the teller's evaluation of the actions and attitudes described in his story may be difficult to discern.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.