I'm a Keeper of Information
History-Telling and Voice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11077960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rhonda Y Williams (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-63 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oral History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ohr.2001.28.1.41 |
| OpenAlex | W2093948434 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Did you have to say it like that? Like what? I would ask my mother each time, somewhat perturbed, only slightly befuddled, and immediately self-aware that somewhere in that last sentence (or two or three), once again, I had stepped out of line, so to speak. It's not what you said, it's how you said it! my mother usually whipped back, her voice raising an octave, or more than likely flowing over her signature calm-yourself-Ginny humph. All I said was... On those occasions, when I launched into a self-defensive repetition restating phrases calibrated in tone, my mother responded: That's not how you said it
Acoustics · Linguistics · Octave (electronics · Physics · Raising (metalworking · Repetition (rhetorical device · Sentence · Tone (literature · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Mathematics · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |