ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, I hope to draw together a range of suggestions for further work in the related fields of dialogue and discourse studies. These suggestions vary from the highly specific (that is, work that would have been presented in this book, had there been world enough and time and space) to much wider topics concerning research in the general area of literary-linguistic practice and theory. As a preliminary to these suggestions, I shall offer here a summary of what I see as the main characteristics of the work so far presented.
