Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Quasthoff, Uta M.

doi:10.1075/jnlh.7.14wer

Article published In: Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis
[Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:1-4] 1997
► pp. 121–128

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Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives

Uta M. Quasthoff | University of Dortmund, Germany

Published online: 4 August 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.7.14wer

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