The Georgetown Round Table on discourse analysis dealt with the following aspects of the topic: Emerson's essay on language; oral remembering and narrative structures; persuasive discourse; social construction of topical cohesion; discourse as an interactional achievement; the place of intonation; topic as the unit of analysis in a criminal law case; building stories; literary style discrimination in young children; topics within topics; episodes as units of discourse analysis; discourse theory and sentence grammar; strategies for understanding public documents; speech actions in personal narrative; ideal readers and real readers; written and oral literature; meaning, rhetorical structure, and discourse organization in myth; the interplay of structure and function in Kuna narrative; the linguistic bases of communicative competence; the rhythmic integration of ordinary talk; "hard talk" as a functional basis for Kaluli discourse; and an analysis of medicine show and sideshow pitches. (AMH)