Direct speech, self-presentation and communities of practice
Subtitle: discourse and identity
By: Sofia Lampropoulou
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781441123848; 9781441167064; 9781441141934
Subjects: Social aspects; Direct discourse in literature; Discourse analysis; Narration (Rhetoric); Sociolinguistics
Notes: Thesis Ph.D.---Lancaster University, 2007

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Speech Representation and Direct Speech; title: Narrative and Self-presentation; title: Data and Methods; title: Distributions, Frequencies and Factors Affecting Direct Speech Variation; title: Voice Representation, Gender and Dominant Discourses; title: Self-presentation; title: - Self through Other-presentation.