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In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

By Deborah Schiffrin

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0521481597, 9780521481595, 9780511147111
Open Library ID
OL7742471M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2378396 bytes)
Pages
392\391
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyzes a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart.

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