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In:Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov
Edited by Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 128] 1997
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 23 May 1997
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
Forewordxv
I. Social Interaction and discourse structures
Discourse analysis, structuralism, and the description of social practice3
Third Turn repair31
The transformation of experience, identity, and context41
Deliberative action constructs: Reference and evaluation in Narrative57
byplay: Negotiation evaluation in storytelling77
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An empirical study of textual structure: horse race calls103
Discourse clues to coded language in an impeachment hearing121
The Incongruity of jokes, riddles and humorous situations139
Discourse enumerators and Schegloff’s denominator153
On the interactional bases of speech community membership183
II. Language in use: Syntactic and lexical variation
On focusing sentences in brazilian Portuguese207
On kind-sentences, resumptive pronouns, and relative clauses223
Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short stories237
Patterns of incorporation of lexemes in language contact: Language typology or sociolinguistics?259
The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergence285
Varbrul and the human/inanimate polarization of the Swahili object marker311
Bibliography339
Index353
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