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Publication details [#55150]

Koven, Michèle. 2011. Comparing stories told in sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous conversation. Language in Society 40 (1) : 75–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | interview | sociolinguistics | speech act | spontaneous discourse

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Contesting the idea that interviews make up artificial speech events, this comparative study shows how interviews may constitute contexts in which people (re)tell experiences that they may also narrate in spontaneous conversations.