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Discourse, as the term appears in the title, and as it is used in the papers collected here. . . . refers to both text and talk, and these not as two separate genres to be compared and contrasted, but rather as overlapping aspects of a single entity. As the object of study, spoken discourse is 'text', much as words spoken in a speech are commonly referred to as the text of the speech. In this sense, 'discourse' and 'text' are synonymous.from the Introduction
| Welcoming Remarks | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| On Emerson on language | p. 1 |
| Oral remembering and narrative structures | p. 12 |
| Persuasive discourse and ordinary conversation, with examples from advertising | p. 25 |
| Money tree, lasagna bush, salt and pepper: Social construction of topical cohesion in a conversation among Italian-Americans | p. 43 |
| Discourse as an interactional achievement: Some uses of 'uh huh' and other things that come between sentences | p. 71 |
| The place of intonation in the description of interaction | p. 94 |
| Topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law case | p. 113 |
| Building stories: The emergence of information structures from conversation | p. 127 |
| Competence for implicit text analysis: Literary style discrimination in five-year-olds | p. 142 |
| Topics within topics | p. 164 |
| Episodes as units of discourse analysis | p. 177 |
| Discourse theory and the independence of sentence grammar | p. 196 |
| Strategies for understanding forms and other public documents | p. 205 |
| Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative | p. 219 |
| Ideal readers and real readers | p. 248 |
| Literature: Written and oral | p. 271 |
| Meaning, rhetorical structure, and discourse organization in myth | p. 284 |
| The interplay of structure and function in Kuna narrative, or: How to grab a snake in the Darien | p. 306 |
| The linguistic bases of communicative competence | p. 323 |
| The rhythmic integration of ordinary talk | p. 335 |
| Hard talk: A functional basis for Kaluli discourse | p. 350 |
| The medicine and sideshow pitches | p. 371 |
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ISBN: 9780878401161
ISBN-10: 0878401164
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
Audience:
Professional
For Ages: 22+ years old
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 1st March 1981
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 2.26
Weight (kg): 0.54
