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Discourse - Nessa Wolfson, CHP: The conversational historical present in American English narrative. Dordrecht: Foris, 1982. Pp. 126.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine
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Department of Linguistics, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
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Language in Society , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 117 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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