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Grammar and Interaction
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.
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Forgotten Dreams
Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.
Conversation Analysis
A edited collection which analyses conversation in a variety of contexts and settings.
Blissfield
In 1824, Hervey Bliss, who according to Duane DeLoach's Blissfield's First 150 Years stood "about five feet, three inches tall, with a somewhat florid complexion and . . . blue eyes," left Monroe County, blazed a trail 20 miles through the woods, built a log cabin, and founded the village of Blissfield on the west bank of the River Raisin. In 1826, George Giles, a neighbor of Bliss in Monroe County, moved onto land on the east side of the river in a place he called Lyons. Before the river was bridged, Blissfield consisted of two separate communities, each with its own schools and downtown areas; the village retains some of that split personality. Triple bridges, once nationally famous, remain the proud symbol of Blissfield, joining what the River Raisin keeps separate and what, as floodwaters insist, the river can still force apart.
New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics
New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive ...
East Asian Pragmatics
Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language. The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of research work published in the local languages, the volume also includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages. A rivetting discourse on pragmatics research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike.
Handbuch Sprache und digitale Kommunikation
Sprache und Kommunikation in digitalen Medien sind Gegenstand sowohl anhaltender öffentlicher Debatten als auch einer mittlerweile dreißigjährigen interdisziplinären Forschung. Das vorliegende Handbuch fasst Ergebnisse dieser Forschung mit sprachwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt zusammen. Die von ausgewiesenen Expert/-innen verfassten Beiträge bieten Einsichten in die Interdependenzen technischer Plattformen (u.a. Smartphones, Social Media) und semiotischer Ressourcen (geschriebene und gesprochene Sprache, Bildzeichen, Memes und andere digitale Textartefakte) bei der Konstituierung von Interaktion und Sozialität sowie Gesellschaft und Diskurs. Die Beiträge untersuchen diese Wechselwirkungen auf verschiedenen Beschreibungsebenen. Die Themen umfassen sprachlich-semiotische Grundstrukturen und ihren Wandel (u.a. Interpunktion, Wortschatz, Bildzeichen), Bedingungen und Prozesse digital vermittelter Interaktion, das Entstehen neuer Kommunikationspraktiken sowie die Dynamik digitaler Diskurse in Politik und Gesellschaft. Das Handbuch richtet sich an Studierende und Wissenschaftler/-innen aller Disziplinen.
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.
