Narrative Structure and Conversational Circumstances

Küntay, Aylin C.; Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.13nar

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 113–120

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Narrative Structure and Conversational Circumstances

Aylin C. Küntay | University of California, Berkeley

Susan M. Ervin-Tripp | University of California, Berkeley

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.13nar

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