Emergent Syntax For Conversation

Author : Yael Maschler,Simona Pekarek Doehler,Jan Lindström,Leelo Keevallik
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261939

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Emergent Syntax for Conversation by Yael Maschler,Simona Pekarek Doehler,Jan Lindström,Leelo Keevallik Pdf

This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are ‘patched together’ on the fly, as well as their routinization and sedimentation into new grammatical patterns across a range of languages – English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Mandarin, and Swedish. The chapters investigate how the real-time organization of complex syntax relates to the unfolding of turns and actions, focusing on: (i) how complex syntactic patterns, or routinized fragments of ‘canonical’ patterns, serve as resources for projection, (ii) how complex syntactic patterns emerge incrementally, moment-by-moment, out of the real-time trajectories of action, (iii) how formal variants of such patterns relate to social action, and (iv) how all of these play out within the multimodal ecologies of action formation. The empirical findings presented in this volume lend support to a conception of syntax as fundamentally temporal, emergent, dialogic, sensitive to local interactional contingencies, and interwoven with other semiotic resources.

Author : Charlene J. Sato
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 3878082614

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The Syntax of Conversation in Interlanguage Development by Charlene J. Sato Pdf

Author : Peter Auer,Stefan Pfänder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110229080

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Constructions by Peter Auer,Stefan Pfänder Pdf

This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic character of grammatical constructions in emergence, both from an ‘emergent’ and an ‘emerging’ perspective. ‘Emerging’ constructions develop out of their discourse contexts. Talking of emerging constructions is compatible with a view of grammar as a stable system of rules and structures which may ‘emerge’ (i.e., come into existence) out of a pool of previously unordered elements. ‘Emergent’ constructions on the contrary are due to the on-line production of grammar in time. The term ‘emergent’ emphasises the fact that a grammatical structure is always temporary and ephemeral. In both senses, grammar is modelled as a highly adaptive resource for interaction. On the basis of empirical studies on spoken English, German, Hebrew, Swedish and French, the volume addresses the following questions: How can what initially appears to be construction x end up being construction y in on-line syntax? What are the local interactional needs which such processes respond to in the process of their emergence? Does the on-line (re-)modelling of a construction concern its syntactic or semantic side ‐ or both? And finally: Should emergent grammatical structures as they unfold in real time be seen as stages in the emerging of grammar?

Author : Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298065

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Syntax in the Making by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo Pdf

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This book focuses on syntactic structuring in Finnish from the viewpoint of language use. The author sets out to study syntactic structures in their local contexts in order to discover the more global patterns and constraints on the use of these structures. The coding strategies point to the clause core as the locus of syntactic structuring: this is where syntactic relations emerge most clearly. It is shown that the key to understanding the coding of the core syntactic relations is the category of person. The clause core also shows strong intonational unity as it is most often presented in one intonation unit. Furthermore, analysis of spoken discourse shows the robustness of the category of noun phrase, both as a clausal constituent and as a free syntactic unit, the free NP.

Author : Auli Hakulinen,Margret Selting
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294173

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Syntax and Lexis in Conversation by Auli Hakulinen,Margret Selting Pdf

This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Italian and Swedish. Some of the studies deal with similar practices in two different languages, which enables cross-linguistic comparisons. The notion of 'construction' is brought together with an interactional perspective; the fact that constructions cannot always be clearly analysed as either syntactic or lexico-semantic has its reflection in this volume. So far, there have been fewer attempts at interactionally oriented work on lexical and semantic phenomena than on syntactic constructions. In this volume, several papers show the interactional relevance of word selection and lexical semantic issues. In the future, studies on syntax and lexico-semantics in interaction will enrich realistic grammars of our languages, and cross-linguistic description of comparable practices of organizing talk in interaction will be invaluable for the study of both inter-European and international communication.

Author : Simona Pekarek Doehler,Leelo Keevallik,Xiaoting Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889760015

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The Grammar-Body Interface in Social Interaction by Simona Pekarek Doehler,Leelo Keevallik,Xiaoting Li Pdf

Author : Xiaoting Li
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270535

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Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation by Xiaoting Li Pdf

One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action and interaction. Adopting the methodology of interactional linguistics, this book offers a fine-grained analysis of the three multimodal resources and the sequential environments in which they appear. It demonstrates that syntax, prosody and body movements not only converge but also diverge in projecting possible turn completion. As one of the few systematic studies of multimodality in Mandarin interaction, this book will be of interest to researchers in Chinese linguistics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis.

Author : Markku Haakana,Minna Laakso,Jan Lindström
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789522227843

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Talk in interaction by Markku Haakana,Minna Laakso,Jan Lindström Pdf

During the recent decades Conversation Analysis has developed into a distinctive method for analyzing talk in interaction. The method is utilized in several disciplines sharing an interest in social interaction, like anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, and sociology, and it has been applied to a great variety of languages and types of interaction. Conversation Analysis then is coming of age as a truly comparative enterprise. This volume presents and discusses comparative approaches to analyzing interactional practices and structures. The contributors to the volume have their background in sociology, linguistics, and logopedics. They offer comparative analyses of activity types, participant roles and identities, displays of emotion, and design of actions such as questions and corrections. The languages covered by the chapters include English, Finnish, German, and Swedish. This volume is of interest to all those interested in the research of language and social interaction. Because of its methodological nature, the book can also be utilized in teaching and in learning the discovery procedures typical of Conversation Analysis.

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261519

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The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages by Tsuyoshi Ono,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for ‘NP’ has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants’ evolving social agendas.

Author : Ritva Laury,Ryoko Suzuki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226341

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Subordination in Conversation by Ritva Laury,Ryoko Suzuki Pdf

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach 'subordination' in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk, considering topics such as the use of clauses as projector phrases and as devices for organizing the participant structure of the conversation. Other articles focus on the emergence of clause combinations diachronically and synchronically, taking on topics such as the grammaticalization of clauses and conjunctions into discourse markers, and the continuum nature of syntactic subordination. In all of the articles, linguistic forms are considered to be emergent from recurrent practices engaged in by participants in conversation. The contributions critically examine central syntactic notions in interclausal relations and their relevance to the description of clause combining in conversational language, to the structure of conversation, and to the interactional functions of language.

Author : Jack Sidnell,Tanya Stivers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118324981

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The Handbook of Conversation Analysis by Jack Sidnell,Tanya Stivers Pdf

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource and reference for scholars of social interaction across the areas of conversation analysis, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, interpersonal communication, discursive psychology and sociolinguistics. Ideal as an introduction to the field for upper level undergraduates and as an in-depth review of the latest developments for graduate level students and established scholars Five sections outline the history and theory, methods, fundamental concepts, and core contexts in the study of conversation, as well as topics central to conversation analysis Written by international conversation analysis experts, the book covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, from reviewing underlying structures of conversation, to describing conversation analysis' relationship to anthropology, communication, linguistics, psychology, and sociology

Author : Daniela E. Casartelli,Silvio Cruschina,Pekka Posio,Stef Spronck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111066035

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The Grammar of Thinking by Daniela E. Casartelli,Silvio Cruschina,Pekka Posio,Stef Spronck Pdf

Sentence (1) represents the phenomenon of reported thought, (2) that of reported speech: (1) Sasha thought: "This is fine" or Sasha thought that this would be fine (2) Sasha said: "This is fine" or Sasha said that this would be fine While sentences as in (1) have often been discussed in the context of those in (2) the former have rarely received specific attention. This has meant that much of the semantic and structural complexity, cross-linguistic variation, as well as the precise relation between (1) and (2) and related phenomena have remained unstudied. Addressing this gap, this volume represents the first collection of studies specifically dedicated to reported thought. It introduces a wide variety of cross-linguistic examples of the phenomenon and brings together authors from linguistic typology, corpus and interactional linguistics, and formal and functional theories of syntax to shed light on how talking about thoughts can become grammar in the languages of the world. The book should be of interest to linguists, philosophers of language, linguistic anthropologists and communication specialists seeking to understand topics at the boundary of stylistics and morphosyntax, as well as the grammar of epistemicity.

Author : Ronit Levie,Amalia Bar-On,Orit Ashkenazi,Elitzur Dattner,Gilad Brandes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030998912

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Developing Language and Literacy by Ronit Levie,Amalia Bar-On,Orit Ashkenazi,Elitzur Dattner,Gilad Brandes Pdf

This volume dedicated to Dorit Ravid, offers 29 new chapters on the multiple facets of spoken and written language learning and usage from a group of illustrious scholars and scientists, focusing on typologically different languages and anchored in a variety of communicative settings. The book encompasses five interrelated yet distinct topics. One set of studies is in the field of developmental psycholinguistics, covering the acquisition of lexical and grammatical categories from toddlerhood to adolescence. A second topic involves a section of studies on the interface of cognition and language, with chapters on processing, production, comprehension, teaching and learning language in usage and in historical perspective. A third topic involves a theoretical and applied perspectives on the acquisition and development of literacy competence, including reading, writing, spelling and text production. A fourth topic brings together an array of studies on social, environmental and clinical diversity in language, highlighting novel issues in multilingualism, immigration, language and literacy disorders. Finally, a section of the volume examines in depth questions in Modern Hebrew linguistics, as the home language and launching base of Dorit Ravid’s research work.

Author : Margret Selting,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027226202

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Studies in Interactional Linguistics by Margret Selting,Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen Pdf

Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles deal with the potential of a single structure for both turn and sequence construction, revealing a play-off between planned and occasioned syntax with potentially far-reaching consequences for language development. Other articles deal with lexical expressions as resources for the conduct of interaction, showing how they are heavily dependent on turn position and sequential context for their meaning potential. In the second section, with a view from the perspective of the interactional order, a systematic focus of interest lies on three different conversational tasks: projecting turn and turn-unit completion, starting up turns with 'non-beginnings' and self-repairing. The cross-linguistic studies here all agree that common interactional tasks may well be carried out by quite different linguistic practices and that these practices are dependent to a certain extent on language features which are typologically distinct.

Author : Toshiko Yamaguchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811938856

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English Produced by Japanese L2 Users by Toshiko Yamaguchi Pdf

This book discusses ten grammatical items, with main focus on prepositions and plural nouns, to illustrate the structure of Japanese English or the English spoken by 32 Japanese nationals who are the L2 users of English. Adopting an inductive, theory-neutral, analysis of empirical data collected from recordings of presentational talks, the author demonstrates how standard and nonstandard grammatical forms are distributed, and categorizes these based largely on functional factors. The book describes grammatical forms as a fundamental aspect of linguistic study and adopts a corpus-driven approach to qualify structural features characterizing usage data. This formalization of language usage patterns also facilitates the development of ‘locally’ relevant norms and thus presents alternatives to the normative varieties traditionally adopted. It examines the effects of multicompetence and unpacks the grammar of Japanese English. The book is of interest to researchers, educators, and students concerned with issues related to World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, English language teaching, and multilingualism, this text is vital to studies in global English language use.