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Publication details [#1215]

Beaugrande, Robert-Alain De. 1982. The story of grammars and the grammar of stories. Journal of Pragmatics 6 : 383–422.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative effect | grammatical rule | grammaticality | story grammar

Journal WWW

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Annotation

B. presents the theoretical development of story grammars in a detailed analysis of the major literature. A number of issues that remain unresolved (grammatical rule, wellformed story, interest value, storyteller-audience interaction, etc.) are discussed, and proposals are made.

Reviewed by

Mandler, Jean Matter. 1982. Another story of grammars: Comments on Beaugrande's 'The story of grammars and the grammar of stories'.

Fillmore, Charles J. 1982. Story grammars and sentence grammars: Some considerations.

Meehan, James R. 1982. Stories and cognition: Comments on Robert de Beaugrande's 'The story of grammars and the grammar of stories'.