Date: 26-Oct-2005 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Hakulinen, Selting (Eds)
Title: Syntax and Lexis in Conversation
Subtitle: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Series Title: Studies in Discourse and Grammar 17
Published: 2005
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Auli Hakulinen, University of Helsinki
Editor: Margret Selting, University of Potsdam
Hardback: ISBN: 902722627X Pages: viii, 408 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902722627X Pages: viii, 408 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
List of contributors vii-viii
Introduction Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting 1-14
Part I. Syntactic resources in conversation
Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation Margret Selting 17-44
Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversation Outi Duvallon and Sara Routarinne 45-74
Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation Peter Auer 75-102
Pivot constructions in spoken German Hannes Scheutz 103-128
The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversation Chiara Monzoni 129-157
Grammatical constructions in "real life practices": WO-constructions in everyday German Susanne Günthner 159-184
Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children's speech Anthony Wootton 185-207
Language as social action: A study of how senior citizens request assistance with practical tasks in the Swedish home help service Anna Lindström 209-230
Part II. Lexico-semantic resources in conversation
The interactional generation of exaggerated versions in conversation Paul Drew 233-255
A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: 'Concessive repair' Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson 257-288
Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrasting Arnulf Deppermann 289-317
Form and function of 'first verbs' in talk-in-interaction Stephanie Schulze-Wenck 319-348
Notes on disaligning 'yes but' initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responses Jakob Steensig and Birte Asmuß 349-373
Where grammar and interaction meet: The preference for matched polarity in responsive turns in Danish Trine Heinemann 375-402
Index 403-406
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Phonology
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
English (eng)
Finnish (fin)
German, Standard (deu)
Italian (ita)
Swedish (swe)
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