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Noda, Hiromi Pat. 2005. Setting the stage: How speakers prepare listeners for the introduction of referents in dialogues and monologues. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11) : 1865–1895.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | dialogue | monologue | referent | speaker

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines how speakers mentally prepare their audience for the introduction of new characters in dialogues and monologues. It is argued that this ability constitutes an important part of communicative competence.