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  Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence (Paperback) By (author) Charlotte Linde

  

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  Short Description for Life StoriesThis is a socio-linguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. It claims that such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the definition of relationships and group memberships.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Published: 01 July 1993
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Sociolinguistics | Literary Theory | Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Political Economy
  • ISBN 13: 9780195073737 ISBN 10: 0195073738
  • Sales rank: 412,440

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• This is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships. She focuses on different coherence systems, including 'common sense' and its peculiarly American nature.