Tannen Deborah Oral and Literate Strategies in Spoken and Written Narratives
Tannen’s article is of importance because not much linguistic research has been done that shows the relationship between different kinds of texts, often research only focuses on just one type of text. ... The article also gives useful and relevant background information, and the conclusion neatly summed up the points that Tannen tried to make in the article. ... Tannen takes up two dimensions which she says are crucial to discourse. These are: (1) spoken vs. written forms, and (2) the connection between literary language and the language of regular conversation. ... Tannen chose to focus her research on collecting narratives as her data, she recorded conversations and then asked people to write down the story of what the conversation was about.