Dualisms in the Study of Narrative: A Note on Labov and Waletzky

Hopper, Paul J.

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.08dua

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
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Dualisms in the Study of Narrative: A Note on Labov and Waletzky

Paul J. Hopper | Carnegie Mellon University

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.08dua

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