0 a person employed in a bank to receive and pay out money: --
1 a person who counts votes at an election or other vote, for example in a parliament: --
3 a person in a bank who receives and pays out money to customers --
4 → bank teller --
A cupid carved on the support of the teller's table implies that the prognostication concerns love.
Even the teller's evaluation of the actions and attitudes described in his story may be difficult to discern.
The analysis illustrates how narratives can yield insights into collective institutional memory and individual tellers' stances and positionings toward institutions.
The restless teenager to the right of the fortune-teller's tent, the dozing matron by the trestle tables, compete with onstage action for perceptual prominence.
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.
With these devices the recipients support the tellers, and there is no further prompting from the recipients.
Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist's criticism.
The telling - the way the tale gets to be told by different tellers - is the object of analysis here.
