Accounts as a reconstruction of an event's context

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• Richard Buttny is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Ithaca College. He would like to thank Professors Vernon E. Cronen and Sarah Trenholm for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
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