Reply from Janina Fenigsen

[Celso Alvarez Cáccamo]

Janina Fenigsen replied to me, but I think not to the list (the Reply
function sends the message to the original sender only). She says:

>Hi Celso, I don't know whether "discourse" is an accepted usage. I
>imagine it likely is not. The reason my student wantsto phrase her
>research interests this way is so as to indicate that she is not
>interested in the assumed referential content of gibbon com. (e.g. a
>"warning call") but rather in the organization of communicative
>stretches- who communicates with whom, how much floor time the
>participants have, response patterns, etc. "Discourse" seems not a bad
>shorthand term for that. What do you think?
>
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>janina