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The Grammar of Interaction
Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use
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ISBN 9789027244352
This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language originates within the space shared by the speaker and the addressee(s). The first part (“Grammar and Interaction”) concerns how interaction may intervene in grammar; the second part (“The Grammar of Interaction”) approaches both notions and linguistic structures which are anchored in interaction while revolving around epistemicity, evidentiality and modality. The third part (“Interaction as a Model for Discourse”) concerns how certain constructions emerge from interaction and are further used to model discourse. Finally, the fourth and last part of the book (“Interaction as a Driver for Change”) focuses on how interaction may help to delimit linguistic categories.
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 46] 2025. xix, 348 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 October 2025
Published online on 17 October 2025
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Table of Contents
- PrefaceSusana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi Antolí Martínez | pp. vii–xx
- Part 1. Grammar and interaction
- Impersonal and middle constructions in Spanish oral conflictive discourseRicardo Maldonado | pp. 2–37
- The Spanish Epistemic Dative Construction: A modal-evidential stance expressionNicole Delbecque | pp. 38–74
- Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology: Interaction as negotiationNicolau Dols | pp. 75–95
- Part 2. The grammar of interaction
- Evidence type and trustworthiness: The view from social mediaMarie Boscaro, Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari | pp. 98–131
- Quotatives and stance takingJuliana De la Mora | pp. 132–149
- Speech acts and interrogative particles: An empirical study on the grammar of Catalan eh?Elena Castroviejo and Laia Mayol | pp. 150–179
- From reference identification to discursive alignment: The (counter)argumentative power of es eso in SpanishSusana Rodríguez Rosique | pp. 180–210
- Part 3. Interaction as a model for discourse
- The grammar of interactives in !Xun (Namibia)Christa König and Bernd Heine | pp. 212–242
- Discourse relations and evidentialityTeresa María Rodríguez Ramalle | pp. 243–264
- How questions shape interactivity in spoken monologic discourseAgnès Celle | pp. 265–285
- Part 4. Interaction as a driver for change
- How Catalan expresses indifference: Patterns and variantsMar Massanell i Messalles | pp. 288–317
- From subjunctives to imperatives: The Romance subjunctive schema and its ramificationsHans-Ingo Radatz | pp. 318–343
- Index | pp. 345–348