This paper focuses on how to retell a story for different target readers/ audiences. When retelling/rewriting a given story, various strategies are involved. Adjusting syntactic complexity is one of the various factors when a story is to be retold. This paper investigates what strategies are involved in order to adjust the syntactic complexity, by analyzing three versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Simply counting the number of complex sentences such as relative clauses, for example, would not be an appropriate way of measuring syntactic complexity. Based on the investigation results reported on in this paper, we found that a storyteller and/or a reteller of a story considers various factors including linguistic complexity, cognitive development, parsing ability, cultural background, as well as other reading- related experiences.

• Youngjun Jang(Chung-Ang University)
• Jooyeon Nam(Chung-Ang University)