Title:
Analyzing discourse : text and talk / Deborah Tannen, editor.
Main Entry:
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (1981)
Tannen, Deborah.
Publisher:
Georgetown University Press,
Publication Date:
c1982.
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C. :
ISBN:
0878401164 (pbk.)
Subject:
Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
Contents:
On Emerson on language / Oral remembering and narrative structures / Persuasive discourse and ordinary conversation, with examples from advertising / Money tree, lasagna bush, salt and pepper : Social construction of topical cohesion in a conversation among Italian-Americans / Discourse as aninteractional achievement : Some uses of 'uh huh' and other things that come between sentences / The place of intonation in the description of interaction / Topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law case / Building stories : The emergence of information structures from conversation / Competence for implicit text analysis : Literary style discrimination in five-year-olds / Topics within topics / Episodes as units of discourse analysis / Discourse theory and the independence of sentence grammar / Strategies for understanding forms and other public documents / Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative / Ideal readers and real readers / Literature : Written and oral / Meaning, rhetorical structure, and discourse organization in myth / The interplay of structure and function in Kuna narrative, or : How to grab a snake in the Darien / The linguistic bases of communicative competence / The rhythmic integration of ordinary talk / Hard talk : A functional basis for Kaluli discourse / The medicine and sideshow pitches /
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