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Discourse Studies

ISSN 1461-4456

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‘That’s what the dream says’: The use of normalizing devices in dream reports

Discourse Studies March 21, 2021 S. Bardina

The paper examines the discursive construction of dream reports. Based on a discursive constructionist approach, the study reviews problematic aspects of constructing dream narratives. Particularly, dream-tellers need to display the external character of their reports and to demonstrate that – although in their dreams they saw and did strange things – they are normal and reliable agents....