Stories in Conversation

Because conversational stories can be used for different purposes, they enter conversations in different ways. Sometimes they have a preface, sometimes not; sometimes a story fits smoothly into the ongoing talk, but other times it changes the topic. Observations such as these led me to the formulati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hofer, Roberta Senner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1991-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/422