Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Deborah Tannen. "A Comparative Analysis of Oral Narrative Strategies: Athenian Greek and American English." In The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production. Advances in Discourse Processes, vol. 3. Ed. Wallace L. Chafe. Norwood: Ablex. pp. 51-89.

A linguistic analysis of contrastive synchronic rhetorics in the conversation of these two geographically and culturally defined groups of speakers.
Area: MG, US, TH, CP