Abstract
The construction of everyday lists (in either speaking or writing) has received very little attention from discourse analysts. This article draws from a corpus of spoken lists to focus upon some key aspects of their discourse structure. A comparison between lists and narratives shows that different information structures are created in the two genres: a descriptive structure in lists and temporal and evaluative structures in narratives. These structures are built from both clause level syntax and textual organization. The article also proposes some ways in which lists can reveal knowledge structure and, thus, provide naturalistic data through which to consider both classical and constructivist models of categories.
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