Author : Elinor Ochs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1996-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521558280
This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.
Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521418038
Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar to coordinate their joint language production. The management of the complexities of the sequential development of a conversation, and the social roles of conversational participants, have been extensively examined within the sociological approach of Conversation Analysis. Dr Ford uses Conversation Analysis as a framework for the interpretation of interclausal relations in her database of American English conversations. Her book contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse, which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than dialogic functions of language.
Author : Emma Betz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902728993X
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in spoken German, pivots allow a speaker to extend an utterance beyond a possible completion point in a syntactically and prosodically unobtrusive way. Speakers utilize this basic property to promote context-specific actions: managing boundaries of speakership, bridging sequential and topical junctures, and dealing with different types of interactional trouble. Through a close examination of syntactic pivots as an interactional resource, this work shows that spoken linguistic structures can only be fully understood if we acknowledge the temporality of language and view grammar as usage-based and negotiable. This book thus contributes to a growing body of research at the intersection of grammar and interaction.
Author : Mike Hannay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027281882
Functional Grammar (FG) as set out by Simon Dik is the ambitious combination of a functionalist approach to the study of language with a consistent formalization of the underlying structures which it recognizes as relevant. The present volume represents the attempts made within the FG framework to expand the theory so as to cover a wider empirical domain than is usual for highly formalized linguistic theories, namely that of written and spoken discourse, while retaining its methodological precision. The book covers an array of phenomena, both from monologue and from dialogue material, relating to discourse structure, speaker aims and goals, action theory, the flow of information, illocutionary force, modality, etc. The central question underlying most of the contributions concerns the relation between, and the division of labour between the existing grammatical module of FG on the one hand, and a discourse or pragmatic module capable of handling such discourse phenomena on the other. What emerges are new proposals for the formal treatment of for instance illocutionary force and the informational status of constituents. Many of the data discussed are from ‘real’ language rather than being invented, and samples from various languages other than English (Spanish, Polish, Latin, French) are examined and used as illustrations of the theoretical problem to be solved. Readership: theoretical linguists and discourse and conversation analysts
Author : Martina Wiltschko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481825
A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.
Author : Martina Wiltschko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108663133
Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss. This groundbreaking book addresses this gap by providing the first in-depth overview of approaches towards interactional language across different frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. Based on the insights that emerge, a formal framework is developed to discover and compare language in interaction across different languages: the interactional spine hypothesis. Two case-studies are presented: confirmationals (such as eh and huh) and response markers (such as yes and no), both of which show evidence for systematic grammatical knowledge. Assuming that language in interaction is regulated by grammatical knowledge sheds new light on old questions concerning the relation between language and thought and the relation between language and communication. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relation between language, cognition and social interaction.
Author : Alan Prince
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0470759399
This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints. Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format. Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory. Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.
Author : Carol A. Padden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1315449668
This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations. Using the framework of relational grammar developed by Perlmutter and Postal in which grammatical relations such as "subject", "direct object", etc. are taken as primitives of linguistic theory, facts about syntactic phenomena, including verb agreement and sign order are accounted for in a general way. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Author : Geoffrey K. Pullum
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Elaine Kirn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780073406404
Interactions/Mosaic Silver Edition is a fully integrated academic skills series that combines the best of print with the convenience of digital delivery. Language proficiencies are articulated from the beginning through advanced levels within each of the four language-skill strands. Chapter themes articulate across the four strands to systematically recycle content, vocabulary and grammar.
