Joe Blythe

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joe Blythe is involved.

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The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door

Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.

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Dahmen, Josua and Joe Blythe 2022 Calibrating recipiency through pronominal referenceInteractional Linguistics 2:2, pp. 190–224 | Article
Participants in conversation have a range of options for referring to co-conversationalists – lexical, grammatical, embodied – regardless of their language. Personal pronouns have been described as the most unmarked way of achieving reference, where little else is accomplished other than the… read more
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de Dear, Caroline, Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin and Frances Kofod 2021 Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversationsGesture 20:3, pp. 417–452 | Article
It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages; and that the… read more
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Dingemanse, Mark, Joe Blythe and Tyko Dirksmeyer 2014 Formats for other-initiation of repair across languages: An exercise in pragmatic typologyStudies in Language 38:1, pp. 5–43 | Article
In conversation, people have to deal with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding. We report on a cross-linguistic investigation of the conversational structure of other-initiated repair (also known as collaborative repair, feedback, requests for clarification, or grounding sequences). We… read more
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