In Other Words
In Other Words
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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.
- Shows what the study of repetition and 're-doing what we say' can tell us about basic processes of discourse
- Draws data and methods from a wide range of disciplines, such as interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semantics
- Addresses basic problems in the study of reference and narrative, and raises new and intriguing questions for the field
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March 2006Adobe eBook Reader
9780511145193
0 pages
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10 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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.
