Publications

Publication details [#1189]

Beaman, Karen. 1984. Coordination and subordination revisited: Syntactic complexity in spoken and written narrative discourse. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Coherence in spoken and written discourse. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 45–80.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

coordination | narrative | oral vs. written | subordination | syntactic complexity

Annotation

B. reports the findings of a study investigating differences in syntactic complexity between spoken and written narrative discourse in an attempt to understand what processes are actually involved in each modality.