| Description |
xiii, 382 pages : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 0196-7207 ; 1981 |
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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics ; 1981
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| Contents |
On Emerson on language / Alton L. Becker -- Oral remembering and narrative structures / Walter J. Ong, S.J. -- Persuasive discourse and ordinary conversation, with examples from advertising / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Money tree, lasagna bush, salt and pepper: social construction of topical cohesion in a conversation among Italian-Americans / Frederick Erickson -- Discourse as an interactional achievement: some uses of 'uh huh' and other things that come between sentences / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- The place of intonation in the description of interaction / Malcolm Coulthard and David Brazil -- Topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law case / Roger W. Shuy -- Building stories: the emergence of information structures from conversation / Catherine E. Snow and Beverly A. Goldfield -- Competence for implicit text analysis: literary style discrimination in five-year-olds / Georgia M. Green -- Topics with topics / Joseph E. Grimes -- Episodes as units of discourse analysis / Teun A. van Dijk -- Discourse theory and the independence of sentence grammar / J.L. Morgan -- Strategies for understanding forms and other public documents / V. Melissa Holland and Janice C. Redish -- Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative / William Labov -- Ideal readers and real readers / Charles J. Fillmore -- Literature: written and oral / William Bright -- Meaning, rhetorical structure, and discourse organization in myth / Sally McLendon -- The interplay of structure and function in Kuna narrative, or: how to grab a snake in the Darien / Joel Sherzer -- The linguistic bases of communicative competence / John J. Gumperz -- The rhythmic integration of ordinary talk / Ron Scollon -- Hard talk: a functional basis for Kaluli discourse / Steven Feld and Bambi B. Schieffelin -- The medicine and sideshow pitches / Fred 'Doc' Bloodgood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Tannen, Deborah, editor
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| LC no. |
83132252 |
| ISBN |
0878401164 |
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