Author: Schiffrin, Deborah
Title: In Other Words : Variation in Reference and Narrative
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xvi,373 pp. Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics ; 21.. Some rubbing. A dent to front cover corner. Good+. ¶ Contents: Variation; Problematic referrals; Anticipating referrals; Reactive and proactive prototypes; Referring sequences; Reframing experience; Retelling a story; Who did what (again)?; Redoing and replaying ["Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language-- presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened' to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on examples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyzes a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retellings of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at- talk, to life story narratives told years apart" - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic, Language, Reference, Narration, Rhetoric, Narrative, ,