How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement

Tannen, Deborah

doi:10.1075/tsl.21.06tan

In:The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
[Typological Studies in Language 21] 1992
► pp. 31–46

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How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement

Deborah Tannen

Published online: 1 July 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.21.06tan

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