CHP, the Conversational Historical Present in American English Narrative |
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CHP: The Conversational Historical Present in American English Narrative Nessa Wolfson Limited preview - 2011 |
Chp: The Conversational Historical: Present in American English Narrative Nessa Wolfson No preview available - 1982 |
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action addressee adverbial Akira Ota American English analysis audience authentic performance background behavior boat clause clearly close friends close friendship collect contain CHP alternation conversational historical present conversational narrative coordinated sentences cue stick Deixis Dell Hymes discourse dissertation dramatic effect elicit ethnic group example explanation fact factors frequently function Gumperz happened historical present tense Hymes Indo-European languages interaction Joos Labov language linguistic linguistic structure listener meaning narrator observation occupational domain occurrence of CHP participants percentage of CHP percentage of stories performance features performed stories preterit question recounted reference rules of speaking Sahaptin sample says seen semantic Silva-Corvalan simple past tense social sociolinguistic speaker specific speech act speech event speech situation spontaneous interview status stories told switch in tense talk tape recorder telling tense and CHP tense form tense switching told in CHP told with CHP topic variable verb tense William Labov