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Tannen, Deborah F., ed. 1984. Coherence in spoken and written discourse. Ablex Publishing Company. xvii + 289 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
coherence | oral vs. written

Articles in this volume

Gumperz, John J., Hannah Kaltman and Mary Catherine O'Connor. Cohesion in spoken and written discourse: Ethnic style and the transition to literacy. 3–19
Tannen, Deborah F. Spoken and written narrative in English and Greek. 21–41
Beaman, Karen. Coordination and subordination revisited: Syntactic complexity in spoken and written narrative discourse. 45–80
Erickson, Frederick D. Rhetoric, anecdote, and rhapsody: Coherence strategies in a conversation among black American adolescents. 81–154
Jarrett, Dennis. Pragmatic coherence in an oral formulaic tradition: I can read your letters/Sure can't read your mind. 155–171
Scollon, Roland and Suzanne B.K. Scollon. Cooking it up and boiling it down: Abstracts in Athabaskan children's story retellings. 173–197
Cook-Gumperz, Jenny and Judith L. Green. A sense of story: Influences on children's storytelling ability. 201–218
Michaels, Sarah and James Collins. Oral discourse styles: Classroom interaction and the acquisition of literacy. 219–244
Aronowitz, Robert. Reading tests as texts. 245–264

Reviewed by

Vitacolonna, Luciano. 2001. Review of $Coherence in spoken and written discourse.
Henze, Rosemary C. 1986. Review of D.Tannen (ed.) (1984: `Coherence in spoken and written discourse').