Interaction And Grammar

Author : Elinor Ochs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558280
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interaction and Grammar written by Elinor Ochs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-12 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.

Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521418038
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar in Interaction written by Cecilia E. Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Emma Betz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902728993X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar and Interaction written by Emma Betz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1108481825
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Interactional Language written by Martina Wiltschko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.

Author : Mike Hannay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281882
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction written by Mike Hannay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470759399
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optimality Theory written by Alan Prince and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032806
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interactional Linguistics written by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Author : Patricia K. Werner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT
ISBN 13 : 9780070696037
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interactions Access written by Patricia K. Werner and published by McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Martina Wiltschko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108663133
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Interactional Language written by Martina Wiltschko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss. This groundbreaking book addresses this gap by providing the first in-depth overview of approaches towards interactional language across different frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. Based on the insights that emerge, a formal framework is developed to discover and compare language in interaction across different languages: the interactional spine hypothesis. Two case-studies are presented: confirmationals (such as eh and huh) and response markers (such as yes and no), both of which show evidence for systematic grammatical knowledge. Assuming that language in interaction is regulated by grammatical knowledge sheds new light on old questions concerning the relation between language and thought and the relation between language and communication. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between language, cognition and social interaction.

Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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