In Other Words - Variation in Reference and Narrative

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Schiffrin is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Klappentext This book explores two important tasks of language - presenting who we are talking about (the referent) and what happened to them in a narrative - and how this alters according to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk! to life story narratives told years apart! it shows how words! structures and meanings are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. An invaluable resource for scholars wishing to understand how discourse is shaped and re-shaped over time! place and person. Zusammenfassung This book explores two important tasks of language - presenting 'who' we are talking about and 'what happened' in a narrative - and how this alters according to emergent forms and meanings. Using a range of examples! it shows how words! structures and meanings are re-used in new contexts for new listeners. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Variation; 2. Problematic referrals; 3. Anticipating referrals; 4. Reactive and proactive prototypes; 5. Referring sequences; 6. Reframing experience; 7. Retelling a story; 8. Who did what (again)?; 9. Redoing and replaying.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah (Georgetown University Schiffrin
• Assisted by: Paul Drew (Editor), Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521481595
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48159-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics