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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
This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.
Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521418034
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 : Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106005099194
Author : Emma Betz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289933
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 : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481823
A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.
Author : Michael Hannay,A. Machtelt Bolkestein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015041919021
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 : Alan Prince,Paul Smolensky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470759394
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 : Patricia K. Werner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0070696039
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 : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1180853673
Author : Mutsuko Endo Hudson,Yoshiko Matsumoto,Junko Mori
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264404
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 : Esther Pascual
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269799
Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use? This book suggests a positive answer to this question by examining the ubiquitous phenomenon of fictive interaction, in which non-genuine conversational turns appear in discourse, even within clauses, phrases, and lexical items (e.g. “Not happy? Money back! guarantee”). The book is based on a collection of hundreds of examples of fictive interaction at all grammatical levels from a wide variety of spoken, written, and signed languages, and from many different discourse genres. Special attention is devoted to the strategic use of fictive interaction in legal argumentation, with a focus on high-profile criminal trials. Both trial lawyers and lay jurors often present material evidence or murder victims as speaking, and express emotions and intentions in conversational terms. The book thus establishes the role of the conversational turn—rather than the sentence—as the basic unit of language, and the role of conversation as a frame that structures cognition, discourse, and grammar.
Author : Simona Pekarek Doehler,Leelo Keevallik,Xiaoting Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889760015
Author : Jianhua Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000008661
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 : Hiroko Tanaka
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299086
This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is shown that the postpositional grammatical structure and the predicate-final orientation in Japanese regularly result in a relatively delayed projectability of the possible point at which a current turn may become recognisably complete in comparison to English. Prior to such points, projectability is often limited to the progressive anticipation of small increments of talk. However, participants are able to achieve smooth speaker transitions with minimal gap or overlap through the use of specific grammatical and prosodic devices for marking possible points at which a transition may become relevant.
Author : Joanne Scheibman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9027226210
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.