Units Of Talk Units Of Action

Author : Beatrice Szczepek Reed
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271313
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Units of Talk – Units of Action written by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and the identification of new units of conduct in interaction. While some chapters make suggestions on how existing linguistic units can be adapted to suit the study of conversation, others present radically new perspectives on how language in interaction should be described, conceptualised and researched. The chapters present empirical investigations into different languages (Danish, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish) in a variety of settings (private and institutional), considering both linguistic and embodied resources for talk. In addressing the fundamental question of units, the volume pushes at the boundaries of current debates and contributes original new insight into the nature of language in interaction.

Author : Brigitte K. Halford
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823345770
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talk Units written by Brigitte K. Halford and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tsuyoshi Ono
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259836
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units written by Tsuyoshi Ono and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and interactional linguistics. This volume contributes to and extends this discussion by examining the nature of units in actual usage in a range of genetically and typologically unrelated languages, English, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin, engaging with fundamental theoretical issues. The chapters show that categories originally created for the description of Indo-European languages have limited usefulness if our goal is to understand the nature of human language in general. The authors thus question the status of traditionally accepted linguistic units, especially their static understanding as a priori entities, and suggest instead that an emergent and interactional view of both structure and function offers a better fit with the data from the languages examined. Originally published as special issue 43:2 (2019) of Studies in Language.

Author : Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298531
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar in Everyday Talk written by Sandra A. Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.

Author : Anna-Brita Stenstrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317897897
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Spoken Interaction written by Anna-Brita Stenstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how conversation works, providing a systematic and exhaustive account of the structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a conversation. It is illustrated throughout with excerpts from genuine conversation and contains numerous exercises with suggested answers based on conversations in the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation.

Author : Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266905
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intonation Units Revisited written by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such problems: the ‘cesura’ approach. Cesuras, or breaks in the flow of talk, are created by discontinuities in the prosodic-phonetic parameters of speech that cluster to various extents at certain points in time. Using conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, the volume identifies the parameters creating cesuras in talk-in-interaction and proposes ways to notate them depending on the researcher’s goal. It also offers a way to study the role of cesuras at the prosody-syntax interface non-circularly, which leads to new insights concerning language variation and change. The volume will thus be of major import to anyone working with natural spoken language, its chunks, its various dimensions, and its variation and change.

Author : Xiaoting Li
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270538
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation written by Xiaoting Li and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Novel Units
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781502059666
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book No Talking Novel Units Student Packet 15 Pack written by Novel Units and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory J. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351139916
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Methods for Sociocultural Research in Science and Engineering Education written by Gregory J. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The three dimensions of learning identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) create a need for research methods that examine the sociocultural components of science education. With cutting-edge studies and examples consistent with the NGSS, this book offers comprehensive research methods for integrating discourse and sociocultural practices in science and engineering education and provides key tools for applying this framework for students, pre-service teachers, scholars, and researchers.

Author : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108294715
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( 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 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and 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. Featuring summary boxes and transcripts from recordings of everyday conversation, this is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on language in social interaction.