Interaction and Grammar
Author: Elinor Ochs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-12-12
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780521558280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.
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Grammar in Interaction
Author: Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-04-08
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0521418038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar to coordinate their joint language production. The management of the complexities of the sequential development of a conversation, and the social roles of conversational participants, have been extensively examined within the sociological approach of Conversation Analysis. Dr Ford uses Conversation Analysis as a framework for the interpretation of interclausal relations in her database of American English conversations. Her book contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse, which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than dialogic functions of language.
The Grammar of Interactional Language
Author: Martina Wiltschko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-17
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1108481825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.
Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction
Author: Mike Hannay
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1998-07-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9027281882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFunctional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to expand the theory so as to cover a wider empirical domain than is usual for highly formalized linguistic theories, namely that of written and spoken discourse, while retaining its methodological precision. The book covers an array of phenomena, both from monologue and from dialogue material, relating to discourse structure, speaker aims and goals, action theory, the flow of information, illocutionary force, modality, etc. The central question underlying most of the contributions concerns the relation between, and the division of labour between the existing grammatical module of FG on the one hand, and a discourse or pragmatic module capable of handling such discourse phenomena on the other. What emerges are new proposals for the formal treatment of for instance illocutionary force and the informational status of constituents. Many of the data discussed are from ‘real’ language rather than being invented, and samples from various languages other than English (Spanish, Polish, Latin, French) are examined and used as illustrations of the theoretical problem to be solved. Readership: theoretical linguists and discourse and conversation analysts
Second Language Acquisition
Author: Susan M. Gass
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780805835281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a thorough revision of the highly successful text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an introductory course for undergraduate or graduate students. The research is updated throughout and there are new sections and chapters in this second edition as well. New chapters cover child language acquisition (first and second), Universal Grammar, and instructed language learning; new sections address issues, such as what data analysis doesn't show, replication of research findings, interlanguage transfer (multilingual acquisition and transfer), the aspect hypothesis, general nativism, connectionist approaches, and implicit/explicit knowledge. Major updates include nonlanguage influences and the lexicon. The workbook, Second Language Learning Data Analysis, Second Edition, makes an ideal accompaniment to the text.
The Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education
Author: Nathanael Rudolph
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2020-08-07
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1788927443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses two critical calls pertaining to language education. Firstly, for attention to be paid to the transdisciplinary nature and complexity of learner identity and interaction in the classroom and secondly, for the need to attend to conceptualizations of and approaches to manifestations of (in)equity in the sociohistorical contexts in which they occur. Collectively, the chapters envision classrooms and educational institutions as sites both shaping and shaped by larger (trans)communal negotiations of being and belonging, in which individuals affirm and/or problematize essentialized and idealized nativeness and community membership. The volume, comprised of chapters contributed by a diverse array of researcher-practitioners living, working and/or studying around the globe, is intended to inform, empower and inspire stakeholders in language education to explore, potentially reimagine, and ultimately critically and practically transform, the communities in which they live, work and/or study.
Optimality Theory
Author: Alan Prince
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0470759399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format. Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory. Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.
Interactional Linguistics
Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1107032806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation and ascription, sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language"--
Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language
Author: Carol A. Padden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1315449668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations. Using the framework of relational grammar developed by Perlmutter and Postal in which grammatical relations such as "subject", "direct object", etc. are taken as primitives of linguistic theory, facts about syntactic phenomena, including verb agreement and sign order are accounted for in a general way. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Learning a Second Language Through Interaction
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9789027241252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text examines different perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. In addition the effects of language aptitude on input processing are considered, and the contribution that interaction makes to the acquisition of grammatical knowledge is discussed.
