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Gee, James Paul; Kegl, Judy Anne – Discourse Processes, 1983
Examines the narrative story structure of a short American Sign Language narrative using stylistic analysis plus the structure of pausing in the narrative. (FL)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Discourse Analysis, Language, Language Research
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Gee, James Paul – Discourse Processes, 1986
Discusses the sources of information in oral language. Uses converging evidence from prosody, pausing, structural and semantic parallelism, and stylistic analysis to argue for a series of hypotheses about the units that organize the construction of narrative discourse. Provides examples and appendixes. (JD)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Processing
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Gee, James Paul; Grosjean, Francois – Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Language, 1984
Used experimental tasks--spontaneous telling of a story, reading, and parsing--to determine whether empirical data reflect narrative structure of stories. It was concluded that spontaneous pausing reflects the narrative structure and can be used as a guide to constructing theories of narrative structure and deciding between competing theories.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Literature Reviews, Models, Narration