Units in the Production of Narrative Discourse.

Gee, James Paul

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Publication Date: 1986

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Units in the Production of Narrative Discourse.

Gee, James Paul

Discourse Processes, v9 n4 p391-422 Oct-Dec 1986

Discusses the sources of information in oral language. Uses converging evidence from prosody, pausing, structural and semantic parallelism, and stylistic analysis to argue for a series of hypotheses about the units that organize the construction of narrative discourse. Provides examples and appendixes. (JD)

Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Personal Narratives, Psycholinguistics, Research Methodology, Speech Communication, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

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