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| Language in Society | 1 |
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| Watson, Karen Ann | 1 |
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Peer reviewedWatson, Karen Ann – Language in Society, 1975
Two speech events, narration and joking conversation, are analyzed from speech samples of Hawaiian 5- to 7-year-olds. An underlying iterative routine was found which allows for both stories and joking to be produced jointly in a contrapuntal style. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Humor, Language Research
