Research Catalog

Title

Linguistics, language, and the real world : discourse and beyond / Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis, editors.

Author

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2001 : Washington, D.C.)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tannen, Deborah
• Alatis, James E.

Description

vi, 202 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics 0186-7207

Uniform Title

Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)

Subject

• Language and languages > Congresses
• Linguistics > Congresses
• Discourse analysis > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Deborah Tannen -- A brief history of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics / James E. Alatis -- Some notes on the musicality of speech / Frederick Erickson -- Laughing while talking / Wallace Chafe -- Power maneuvers or connection maneuvers? Ventriloquizing in family interaction / Deborah Tannen -- Uncovering the event structure of narrative / William Labov -- Linguistics and history: Oral history as discourse / Deborah Schiffrin -- The voice of the audience in contemporary American political discourse / Alessandro Duranti -- Narrative in the construction of social and political identity / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Patients' voices in the medical world: An exploration of accounts of noncompliance / Heidi E. Hamilton -- Discourse of denial / Shirley Brice Heath -- Implementing a district-wide foreign language program: A case study of acquisition planning and curricular innovation / G. Richard Tucker, Richard Donato.

ISBN

0878409041 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 51527659
• SCSB-13465396

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library