On the basis of collected oral literature from the Bovec area, and examination of audio documentation and transcripts, I would like to focus on the moment when everyday dialect discourse turns into narrative. Comparison of stories, and the discourse before and during them, leads to the conclusion that during narration the aesthetic function is increased. The narrator tries to maintain the listener’s attention by increasing dramatization; this is achieved through both verbal and nonverbal figures. For further analysis, the obtained material has to be preserved by means of audio documentation. But the presence of audio devices has a psychological influence on the narrator, which also causes some of the language differences between everyday spoken discourse and narration.
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