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Syntax and Lexis in Conversation
Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Italian and Swedish. Some of the studies deal with similar practices in two different languages, which enables cross-linguistic comparisons. The notion of 'construction' is brought together with an interactional perspective; the fact that constructions cannot always be clearly analysed as either syntactic or lexico-semantic has its reflection in this volume.
So far, there have been fewer attempts at interactionally oriented work on lexical and semantic phenomena than on syntactic constructions. In this volume, several papers show the interactional relevance of word selection and lexical semantic issues. In the future, studies on syntax and lexico-semantics in interaction will enrich realistic grammars of our languages, and cross-linguistic description of comparable practices of organizing talk in interaction will be invaluable for the study of both inter-European and international communication.
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
- IntroductionAuli Hakulinen and Margret Selting | pp. 1–14
- Part I. Syntactic resources in conversation
- Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversationMargret Selting | pp. 17–44
- Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversationOuti Duvallon and Sara Routarinne | pp. 45–74
- Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversationPeter Auer | pp. 75–102
- Pivot constructions in spoken GermanHannes Scheutz | pp. 103–128
- The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversationChiara M. Monzoni | pp. 129–157
- Grammatical constructions in “real life practices”: WO-constructions in everyday GermanSusanne Günthner | pp. 159–184
- Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children’s speechAnthony Wootton | pp. 185–207
- Language as social action: A study of how senior citizens request assistance with practical tasks in the Swedish home help serviceAnna Lindström | pp. 209–230
- Part II. Lexico-semantic resources in conversation
- The interactional generation of exaggerated versions in conversationPaul Drew | pp. 233–255
- A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: ‘Concessive repair’Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 257–288
- Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrastingArnulf Deppermann | pp. 289–317
- Form and function of ‘first verbs’ in talk-in-interactionStephanie Schulze-Wenck | pp. 319–348
- Notes on disaligning ‘yes but’ initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responsesJakob Steensig and Birte Asmuß | pp. 349–373
- Where grammar and interaction meet: The preference for matched polarity in responsive turns in DanishTrine Heinemann | pp. 375–402
- Index | pp. 403–406
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