Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

by Wallace Chafe

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Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination.

Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226100545

ISBN13:9780226100548

Release Date:October 1994

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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