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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah (Georgetown University Schiffrin
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521484749
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48474-9
• Pagine: 390
• Serie: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Studies in Interactional Socio
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie