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Publication details [#2409]

Coulthard, R. Malcolm, Martin Montgomery and David Brazil. 1981. Developing a description of spoken discourse. In Coulthard, R. Malcolm and Martin Montgomery, eds. Studies in discourse analysis. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 1–50.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | discourse organization | intonation | monologue

Annotation

General discussion of how to describe spoken discourse (ranks, levels, macrostructures, transactions, exchanges, sequences) with special attention to the structure of monologue and to intonation.