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Schiffrin, Deborah. 2003. We Knew That's It: Retelling the Turning Point of a Narrative. Discourse Studies 5 (4) : 535–562.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
1461-4456

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that variations in a Holocaust narrator's line 'we knew that's it' (Labov, 1972), a paradigmatic way of conveying a turning point in a narrative of danger, reveal its relationship with the narrative's changing structure and with the shift toward multi-vocalic ways of external evaluation.