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Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyzes a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart.
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In Other Words What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language – presenting ‘who’ we are talking about, (the referent) and ‘what happened’ to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative – and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyses a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart. Bringing together work from conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and variation analysis, In Other Words will be invaluable for scholars wishing to understand the many different factors that underlie the shaping and reshaping of discourse over time, place and person. D e b o r a h S c h i f f r i n is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has previously published Discourse Markers (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Approaches to Discourse (1994), Meaning, Form and Use in Context (1984), and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2001). She is on the advisory board of Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics, and on the editorial board of several journals, including Language in Society.
Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics e d i to rs Paul Drew, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, John J. Gumperz, Deborah Schiffrin 1. Discourse Strategies John J. Gumperz 2. Language and Social Identity edited by John J. Gumperz 3. The Social Construction of Literacy edited by Jenny Cook-Gumperz 4. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson 5. Discourse Markers Deborah Schiffrin 6. Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse Deborah Tannen 7. Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behaviour in Focused Encounters Adam Kendon 8. Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings edited by Paul Drew and John Heritage 9. Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations Cecilia E. Ford 10. Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication Linda W. L. Young 11. AIDS Counselling: Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice ¨ a¨ Anssi Perakyl 12. Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Margaret Selting 13. Interaction and Grammar edited by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Sandra M. Thompson 14. Credibility in Court: Communicative Practices in the Camorra Trials Marco Jacquemet 15. Interaction and the Development of Mind A. J. Wootton 16. The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air Steven Clayman and John Heritage 17. Gender and Politeness Sara Mills 18. Laughter in Interaction Philip Glenn 19. Matters of Opinion: Talking about Public Issues Greg Myers 20. Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Patients edited by John Heritage and Douglas Maynard
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