The story in conversation : towards an integration of speech act theory and conversational analysis

This thesis is a study of the story in natural conversation. The story is an intuitively recognizable but problematic unit to describe, since the features which distinguish it in conversation are s~ markedly different from the features that characterise a narrative text. An attempt is made in the th...

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Main Author: Bhaya, Rukmini
Published: University of Cambridge 1982
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238270