LINGUIST List 17.966

Fri Mar 31 2006

Books: Discourse Analysis/Socioling: Schiffrin

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative: Schiffrin
Message 1: In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative: Schiffrin
Date: 28-Mar-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative: Schiffrin


Title: In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 21 Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Deborah Schiffrin Hardback: ISBN: 0521481597 Pages: 390 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521481597 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521481597 Pages: 390 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521481597 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Abstract:

What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings thatare combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. Inthis book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language -presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' tothem (their actions and attributes) in a narrative - and explores how thispresentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing onexamples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyses avariety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings ofnarratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk,to life story narratives told years apart. Bringing together work fromconversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cognitive semantics,pragmatics, and variation analysis, In Other Words will be invaluable forscholars wishing to understand the many different factors that underlie theshaping and re-shaping of discourse over time, place and person.

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.


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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