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Publication details [#51570]

Schely-Newman, Esther. 2009. Defining Success, Defending Failure: Functions of Reported Talk. Research on Language and Social Interaction 42 (3) : 191–209.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | hegemony | interview | literacy | reported speech

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper reveals that reported talk in interviews with women who took part in a national adult literacy campaign, constitutes a powerful discourse strategy for determining and defending actions. The emerging literacy campaign story challenges the campaign's (counter)hegemonic narrative.