Transferable Communicative Routines: Strategies and Group Identity in Two Speech Events.

Watson, Karen Ann

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Transferable Communicative Routines: Strategies and Group Identity in Two Speech Events

Watson, Karen Ann

Language in Society, 4, 1, 53-72, Apr 75

Two speech events, narration and joking conversation, are analyzed from speech samples of Hawaiian 5- to 7-year-olds. An underlying iterative routine was found which allows for both stories and joking to be produced jointly in a contrapuntal style. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Humor, Language Research, Language Styles, Narration, Social Behavior, Speech, Speech Communication

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