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Tannen, Deborah, Ed. – 1981
The Georgetown Round Table on discourse analysis dealt with the following aspects of the topic: Emerson's essay on language; oral remembering and narrative structures; persuasive discourse; social construction of topical cohesion; discourse as an interactional achievement; the place of intonation; topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Folk Culture