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Publication details [#26344]

Gomes, Barbara A. and Laura Martin. 1996. "I only listen to one person at a time": distance and resonance in talk about talk. Language in Society 25 (2) : 205–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | coherence | conflict | discourse analysis | education

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper shows how coherence strategies in discourse are used to deal with incoherence and conflict in social context, via the analysis of US high school teacher/student talk on the contentious matter of ethnic and cultural diversity and related public policies.