Labov and Waletzky Thirty Years On

Bruner, Jerome S.

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.06lab

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 61–68

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Labov and Waletzky Thirty Years On

Jerome S. Bruner | New York University

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.06lab

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