Table of Contents

SPOKEN AND WRITTEN DISCOURSE
Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse: Ethnic Style and the Transition to Literacy
Spoken and Written Narrative in English and Greek
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF ORALITY AND LITERACY
Coordination and Subordination Revisited: Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Narrative Discourse
Rhetoric, Anecdote, and Rhapsody: Coherence Strategies in a Conversation Among Black American Adolescents
Pragmatic Coherence in an Oral Formulaic Tradition: I Can Read Your Letters. Sure Can't Read Your Mind
Cooking It Up and Boiling It Down: Abstracts in Athabaskan Children's Story Retellings
CHILDREN IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL
Sense of Story: Influences on Children's Storytelling Ability
Oral Discourse Styles: Classroom Interaction and the Acquisition of Literacy
Reading Tests as Texts
Bibliography of Spoken and Written Language
Author Index
Subject Index