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Publication details [#26547]

Ramanathan - Abbott, Vai. 1993. An examination of the relationship between social practices and the comprehension of narratives. Text 13 (1) : 117–141.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural constraint | narrative, comprehension of | narrative, production of | text organization

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This article suggests that cultural identity and school-based literacy influence both production and comprehension of narratives, and that is it hence more difficult to understand alternative text-structuring.