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.
Grammar and Interaction
Author: Emma Betz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2008-10-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 902728993X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in spoken German, pivots allow a speaker to extend an utterance beyond a possible completion point in a syntactically and prosodically unobtrusive way. Speakers utilize this basic property to promote context-specific actions: managing boundaries of speakership, bridging sequential and topical junctures, and dealing with different types of interactional trouble. Through a close examination of syntactic pivots as an interactional resource, this work shows that spoken linguistic structures can only be fully understood if we acknowledge the temporality of language and view grammar as usage-based and negotiable. This book thus contributes to a growing body of research at the intersection of grammar and interaction.
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
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.
Point of View and Grammar
Author: Joanne Scheibman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789027226211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.
Interactions Level 1 Grammar Student Book
Author: Elaine Kirn
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2006-12-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780073406404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInteractions/Mosaic Silver Edition is a fully integrated academic skills series that combines the best of print with the convenience of digital delivery. Language proficiencies are articulated from the beginning through advanced levels within each of the four language-skill strands. Chapter themes articulate across the four strands to systematically recycle content, vocabulary and grammar.
Mobilizing Others
Author: Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-05-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 902726158X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRequesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit focus on ‘activity’ in unpacking the linguistic and embodied choices we make in designing mobilizing moves. Drawing on studies from a variety of different languages and settings, the collected studies in this volume illustrate how interactants design their turns not only for specific recipients, but also for a specific interactional situation. In doing so, speakers are able to mobilize others’ cooperation, contribution, or assistance in the most appropriate and economical ways. By focusing on ‘situation design’ across languages and settings, this volume provides new insights into the ways in which the ongoing activity, with its attendant participation structures, shapes the design, placement, and understanding of moves which mobilize others to act.
Pragmatics of Japanese
Author: Mutsuko Endo Hudson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9027264406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters address a variety of traditional and emerging topics by adopting diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks and presenting a range of perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture. They demonstrate a wide scope of pragmatics research informed by, as well as informing, usage-based grammar, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Chapters also consider future directions as to how the study of Japanese language in use will continue to offer critical data and analyses to the field dominated by the study of English and other European languages. This volume is certain to be of interest to students and scholars engaged in pragmatics in general and the Japanese language in particular.
