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Publication details [#9348]
Tannen, Deborah F. 1980. A comparative analysis of oral narrative strategies: Athenian Greek and American English. In Chafe, Wallace L., ed. The pear stories: Cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 51–87.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
T. compares narratives told by Greek and American young women in response to the question 'What happened in the movie?' She studies how their approaches and narrative strategies differ. She concludes that there are no differences in underlying cognitive processes at work, but differences in the conventionalization of appropriate rhetorical forms.