Narrative, literacy, and face in interethnic communication /
by Ron Scollon and Suzanne B.K. Scollon.
- xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Advances in discourse processes, v. 7 0164-0224 ; .
- Advances in discourse processes ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index.
Discrimination in Interethnic Communication -- The Centrality of Communicative Style -- Athabaskan-English Interethnic Communication -- Discourse and Reality Set in Interethnic Communication -- The Modern Consciousness and Literacy -- The Literate Two-Year-Old: The Fictionalization of Self -- The Bush Consciousness and Oral Narrative Discourse -- Abstracting Themes: A Chipewyan Two-Year-Old -- Face and Cultural Pluralism -- Discourse as Politeness Phenomena -- Cross-System Interaction, Ethnicity, and Communicative Pluralism.
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Intercultural communication Interpersonal communication--Alaska Athapascan Indians--Languages--Social aspects. Indians of North America--Languages--Social aspects.