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A pointless approach to stories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk
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Department of General Literary Studies, Section of Discourse Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 598 - 599
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