Empirical Linguistics

Linguists who measured what Ong theorized. Chafe's "Pear Stories" captured real-time narrative; Tannen bridged linguistics and conversation; Halliday's SFL gave us tools to analyze register and mode.

Wallace Chafe (5)

Integration and Involvement in Speaking, Writing, and Oral Literature
Chafe & Danielewicz, 1987 · In Tannen (ed.), Spoken and Written Language
The Relation Between Written and Spoken Language
Chafe & Tannen, 1987 · Annual Review of Anthropology 16
The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production
Chafe (ed.), 1980 · The landmark cross-cultural narrative study
Discourse, Consciousness, and Time
Chafe, 1994 · U Chicago Press · Flow and displacement of consciousness
Cognitive Constraints on Information Flow
Chafe, 1987 · In Tomlin (ed.), Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

Deborah Tannen (12)

The Oral/Literate Continuum in Discourse
Tannen, 1982 · In Tannen (ed.), Spoken and Written Language
Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy
Tannen (ed.), 1982 · Ablex · Key edited volume
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse
Tannen, 1989/2007 · Cambridge
Relative Focus on Involvement in Oral and Written Discourse
Tannen, 1982 · In Olson et al. (eds.), Literacy, Language, and Learning
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Schiffrin, Tannen, Hamilton (eds.), 2001 · Blackwell
What's in a Frame? Surface Evidence for Underlying Expectations
Tannen, 1979 · In Freedle (ed.), New Directions in Discourse Processing
Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives
Tannen, 1982 · Language 58(1)
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
Tannen, 1984/2005 · Georgetown dinner conversation analysis

M.A.K. Halliday & Systemic Functional Linguistics (28)

An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Halliday & Matthiessen, 4th ed 2014 · The foundational SFL text
Cohesion in English
Halliday & Hasan, 1976 · Definitive treatment of cohesive devices
Spoken and Written Language
Halliday, 1985 · Mode in language
Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Thompson et al. (eds.), 2019 · Register, context, and mode
Language as Social Semiotic
Halliday, 1978 · The social interpretation of language and meaning
Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power
Halliday & Martin, 1993 · Nominalization in scientific discourse
Things and Relations: Regrammaticising Experience as Technical Knowledge
Halliday, 1998 · Grammatical metaphor
The Structure of a Text
Hasan, 1985 · Generic structure potential
Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Thompson et al. (eds.), 2019 · Major reference
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