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Publication details [#7656]

Polanyi, Livia. 1979. So what's the point? Semiotica 25 (3-4) : 207–241.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | story point

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

On the subject matter of stories in naturally occuring conversation. It is argued that the point of a story has to be culturally salient material generally agreed upon by the teller's culture to be self-evidently important or true.