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Publication details [#6781]

Michaels, Sarah and Jenny Cook-Gumperz. 1979. A study of sharing time with first grade students: Discourse narratives in the classroom. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5 : 647–660.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | classroom conversation | narration, L1-acquisition of | topic initiation

Annotation

M. and C. discuss how a child in a classroom setting addresses the problems of how to select from a multiplicity of things to tell about, and how to present the information in a form which is interpretable to others who do not share the same background knowledge.