CLIFFORD HILL holds an endowed chair—the Arthur I. Gates Professorship of Language and Education—at Columbia University, where he also chairs the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College./e In addition, he directs the Program in African Languages at the Institute of African Studies, which is housed in the School of International and Public Affairs.ERIC LARSEN is Adjunct Professor and instructor at the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Introduction Context of Study esting Reader Parsimony Truncated Narratives Excerpted Narratives Gapped Narratives Testing Reader Flexibility Shifting Frames Resolving Polarities Changing Registers Conclusions Implications of the Study Glossary References Author Index Subject Index