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Publication details [#4139]

Gumperz, John J., Hannah Kaltman and Mary Catherine O'Connor. 1984. Cohesion in spoken and written discourse: Ethnic style and the transition to literacy. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Coherence in spoken and written discourse. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 3–19.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | conversational strategy | discourse analysis | interethnic context | oral vs. written

Annotation

On how sociolinguistic discourse analysis can contribute to the development of a theory of how spoken discourse conventions are transferred to situated communicative strategies in written discourse, and how the transition process is affected by differences in communicative background.