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Topic as a Discourse Notion: a Study of Topic in the Conversations of Children and Adults( )

Elinor Ochs Keenan, Bambi B. Schieffelin

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This paper systematically studies how topics are initiated, sustained, and dropped in natural conversations between children and adults, integrating conversational analysis with new observations.

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Field: Literature and Literary Theory

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