Gender, ethnicity, and narrative : a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of adolescents' personal experience stories /

The purpose of this study is to determine how a select group of adolescents constructs written stories about personal experience, how they make use of the syntactic resources of English to encode information in narrative, and how they depict themselves and their worlds. To that end, I have examined...

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Main Author:	McLeod-Porter, Delma
Other Authors:	Clark, William Bedford (degree committee member.), Florez-Tighe, Viola (degree committee member.), Gibson, Claude L. (degree committee member.), Gong, Gwendolyn (degree committee member.)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	1991.
Subjects:	Adolescence > Language. Discourse analysis, Narrative. Sociolinguistics. Major English. Academic theses
Online Access:	Link to OAKTrust copy