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Publication details [#2063]

Chafe, Wallace L. 1983. Integration and involvement in spoken and written language. In Borbé, Tasso, ed. Semiotics unfolding: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979. Mouton. pp. 1095–1102.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | involvement | oral vs. written

Annotation

Discussion and exemplification of what C. believes to be the fundamental differences between spoken and written language: the fact that written language tends to be more 'integrated', and the fact that spoken language tends to be more 'involved'.