Grammar In Interaction

Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521418034

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Grammar in Interaction by Cecilia E. Ford Pdf

Cecilia 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.

Author : Elinor Ochs,Emanuel A. Schegloff,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052155828X

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Interaction and Grammar by Elinor Ochs,Emanuel A. Schegloff,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.

Author : Emma Betz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289933

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Grammar and Interaction by Emma Betz Pdf

This 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.

Author : Martina Wiltschko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481823

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The Grammar of Interactional Language by Martina Wiltschko Pdf

A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.

Author : Mike Hannay,A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281883

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Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction by Mike Hannay,A. Machtelt Bolkestein Pdf

Functional 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

Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1180853673

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Grammar in Interaction by Cecilia E. Ford Pdf

Author : Alan Prince,Paul Smolensky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470759394

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Optimality Theory by Alan Prince,Paul Smolensky Pdf

This 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.

Author : Jianhua Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000008661

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Prominence and Locality in Grammar by Jianhua Hu Pdf

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. An integrated approach incorporating analyses of the interaction between different levels of linguistic knowledge is proposed. It argues that the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions and reflexives are not purely syntactic in nature but are regulated by principles operating at the syntax-semantics interface. Two general principles underlying our knowledge of language and cognition are proposed in this work. One is the Principle of Locality, and the other is the Principle of Prominence. It shows that although wh-quantification and reflexivization belong to two different domains of study in generative grammar, their derivation and interpretation are basically constrained by the complex interaction between prominence and locality in grammar. The first part of the book discusses how wh-questions are formed and interpreted in Chinese and English and shows that the formation and interpretation of wh-questions are constrained by the interaction between prominence and locality. It is shown that in wh-interpretation prominence is used to define the set generators so as to licence other wh-words in the pair-list reading in multiple wh-questions. It also discusses wh-island effects in English and Chinese, and unlike previous claims made in the literature (cf. Huang 1982a, 1982b), it argues that the so-called wh-island effects in English are also observed in Chinese. The second part of the book investigates the role that prominence and locality play in reflexive binding. It is shown that in reflexive binding, the binding domain of the reflexive is defined by prominence. It proposes a unified account for both the noncontrastive compound reflexive and the bare reflexive in Chinese and shows that they are constrained by the same reflexive binding condition proposed in this work, though they employ different definitions of the most prominent NPs to determine their binding domains. Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Quesitons and Reflexives is an important theoretical contribution to the syntax-semantics interface studies and can serve as a valuable text for graduate students and scholars in the field of Chinese, linguistics, and cognitive science.

Author : Simona Pekarek Doehler,Leelo Keevallik,Xiaoting Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : J. R. Martin,Beatriz Quiroz,Giacomo Figueredo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108493796

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Interpersonal Grammar by J. R. Martin,Beatriz Quiroz,Giacomo Figueredo Pdf

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

Author : Ann Hewings,Martin Hewings
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415310814

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Grammar and Context by Ann Hewings,Martin Hewings Pdf

Grammar and Context: considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey. The accompanying website to this book can be found at http: //www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415310814/

Author : Mutsuko Endo Hudson,Yoshiko Matsumoto,Junko Mori
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264404

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Pragmatics of Japanese by Mutsuko Endo Hudson,Yoshiko Matsumoto,Junko Mori Pdf

Bringing 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.

Author : Joanne Scheibman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9027226210

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Point of View and Grammar by Joanne Scheibman Pdf

This 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.

Author : Patricia K. Werner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0070696039

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Interactions Access by Patricia K. Werner Pdf

This text introduces, practices, and applies basic grammatical structures in everyday contexts. The conversational approach helps students use the grammar structures they are studying in real-life communication. Ideal for pre-beginning to beginning ESOL students.

Author : Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293619

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Request Sequences by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm Pdf

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and within the request base sequence, and the placement of the request sequence within the larger social interaction. Through an empirical analysis of individual cases of request sequences in German, the monograph describes in detail: (a) how speakers employ grammar and syntax as resources to construct turns at talk and accomplish the social action of request; (b) how speakers use grammatical and syntactical forms of the language to coordinate the production of the social action of requests; (c) how speakers use grammar and syntax as interactional resources to manage affiliative and remedial work (i.e., face work) when performing delicate social actions such as requests; and (d) how the context of the request activity impacts the grammatical and syntactical constructions of speakers’ utterances. Additionally, the monograph demonstrates that both the grammatical construction of turns and their placement within the talk are oriented to the sequential context of the interaction.