K.K. Luke
List of John Benjamins publications in which K.K. Luke is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-5382
Studies in Language and Social Interaction
Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
ISSN 1879-3983
Journal
Chinese Language and Discourse
An International and Interdisciplinary Journal
Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei
ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
Titles
The Joint Production of Conversational Turns
Edited by K.K. Luke and Mei Fang
Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021) v, 134 pp.
Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures
Edited by K.K. Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 101] 2002. x, 290 pp.
Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation
K.K. Luke
Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9] 1990. xvi, 329 pp.
2021 Parties and voices: On the joint construction of conversational turns The Joint Production of Conversational Turns, Luke, K.K. and Mei Fang (eds.), pp. 6–34 | Article
Since Harvey Sacks’ early observations on collaborative sentence-making, the joint production of turns has become a topic of abiding interest amongst conversation analysts. This paper offers a thematic review of the literature by looking into a number of issues surrounding joint productions,… read more
2021 Special issue on joint production of conversational turns: An Introduction The Joint Production of Conversational Turns, Luke, K.K. and Mei Fang (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
2016 Storytelling in multiple contexts Conversation Analysis in Chinese, Thompson, Sandra A. and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (eds.), pp. 297–340 | Article
Since Sacks’ pioneering work in the 1970s, storytelling has become a favourite topic of research within conversation analysis. Scholars have examined storytelling from the point of view of sequential organization (Jefferson 1978), participation organization (Goodwin 1984), story co-telling… read more
2010 Insertion as a self-repair device and its interactional motivations in Chinese conversation Chinese Language and Discourse 1:2, pp. 153–182 | Article
Conversational repair has been studied for its organizational features, relationship with syntax, and interactional functions. This paper focuses on one particular type of same-turn self-repair, namely, insertions. Examining in detail a collection of insertions culled from a corpus of naturally… read more
2007 Retrospective turn continuations in Mandarin Chinese conversation Turn continuation in cross-linguistic perspective, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 605–635 | Article
How the status of further talk past the point of a turn’s possible completion should be described, and what functions different kinds of turn continuation might serve – these are questions that have engaged many scholars since Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson’s turn-taking model (1974). In this… read more
2002 The initiation and introduction of first topics in Hong Kong telephone calls Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 171–200 | Article
2002 Studying telephone calls: Beginnings,developments,and perspectives Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article
2001 A comparative study of the semantics of serial verb constructions in Dagaare and Cantonese Languages in Contrast 3:2, pp. 165–180 | Article
The serial verb construction (SVC) is a productive syntactic phenomenon in many Asian and African languages and has been the subject of various studies. Many of these studies are, however, mainly based on data from the individual Asian and African languages or language groups (e.g. Jayaseelan 1996… read more
1982 English in Hong Kong: Functions and status English World-Wide 3:1, pp. 47–64 | Article