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Approaches to Slavic Interaction
This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of politeness research. A further field includes empirical and interpretive methods of modern sociolinguistics and statistical analysis of spoken language in casual and institutional talks. Several papers focus on a semantic or syntactic analysis of talk-in-interaction by trying to show how interlocutors use certain lexical, grammatical, syntactic and multimodal or prosodic means for the management of interaction in performing specific actions, genres and displaying negotiations of epistemic, evidential or evaluative stances. The volume is rounded out by contributions to the theory of politeness where strategies of face-work in casual as well as institutional discourse are analyzed, or in which social tasks entertained by code-switching and language alternation within the interaction of bilinguals are discussed.
[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 July 2013
Published online on 26 July 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. ix–xi
- Introduction and overviewNadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta | pp. 1–13
- Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
- Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversationLenore A. Grenoble | pp. 17–33
- Reanimating responsibility: The weź-V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish interactionJörg Zinken | pp. 35–61
- Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negationElena Grishina | pp. 63–83
- Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television showsHanna Laitinen | pp. 85–102
- Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction
- Russian everyday utterances: The top lists and some statisticsTatiana Sherstinova | pp. 105–116
- Speech rate as reflection of speaker’s social characteristicsSvetlana Stepanova | pp. 117–129
- Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction
- How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in RussianNicole Richter | pp. 133–145
- ‘This is how I see it’: No prefacing in PolishMatylda Weidner | pp. 147–166
- How can I lie if I am telling the truth? The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentialityPeter Kosta | pp. 167–184
- Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction – From (im)politeness to humor
- Irony in the face(s) of politeness: Strategic use of verbal irony in Czech political TV debatesJekaterina Mažara | pp. 187–212
- Parliamentary communication: The case of the Russian GosdumaDaniel Weiss | pp. 213–235
- Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysisMichael Furman | pp. 237–256
- Humor as staging an utteranceNadine Thielemann | pp. 257–278
- Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families
- Bilingual language use in the family environment: Evidence from a telephone conversation between members of a community of speakers of German descentVeronika Ries | pp. 281–293
- Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading? Linguistic strategies and language negotiation in Russian-French speaking families in SwitzerlandLiliane Meyer Pitton | pp. 295–315
- Index | pp. 317–318
“This volume is a useful and interesting resource for anyone working on or interested in various forms of interaction, particularly in the Slavic languages under examination”
Dorota Lockyer, University of British Columbia, on Linguist List 25.2335
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