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Jean Quigley, The grammar of autobiography: A developmental account. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. Pp. xiv, 232. Hb $49.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2002

Stanton Wortham
Stanton Wortham
Affiliation:
Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, stantonw@gse.upenn.edu
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Abstract

In The grammar of autobiography, Jean Quigley makes a claim that one often hears nowadays: that the self is constructed in autobiographical narrative discourse. Two dimensions of the work distinguish her analysis of narrative self-construction from many other treatments of the subject. First, she offers a genuinely interdisciplinary account, drawing on functional linguistics, theoretical and developmental psychology, and accounts of language development. Second, she studies a particular category of linguistic forms – modals – as the key to narrative self-construction.

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Language in Society , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 490 - 493
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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