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Transferable communicative routines: strategies and group identity in two speech events

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Karen Ann Watson
Karen Ann Watson
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East-West Center
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Abstract

ABSTRACT

Two speech events, narration and joking conversation, are analyzed from a sample of speech data recorded from Hawaiian children 5–7 years old, in a peer group setting. An underlying routine, which is transferable from one genre of speech event to another, is identified in both narration and joking. This routine is iterative, and allows for both stories and joking to be produced jointly in a contrapuntal style. Some social rules governing the use of the routine are discussed. (Linguistic routines, narration, joking, conversation, Hawaiian talk story.)

Type
Articles: Conversational devices and structures
Information
Language in Society , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1975 , pp. 53 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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