Grammar and Dialogism: Sequential, Syntactic, and Prosodic Patterns between Emergence and Sedimentation

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Grammar and Dialogism

Sequential, Syntactic, and Prosodic Patterns between Emergence and Sedimentation

Edited by: Susanne Günthner , Wolfgang Imo and Jörg Bücker

Volume 61 in the series Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110358612

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About this book

This volume aims at analyzing the relationship between the dialogical accomplishment of spoken talk-in-interaction on the one hand and entrenched patterns of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge (constructions, frames, and communicative genres) on the other. The contributions analyze linguistic patterns in different languages such as English, French, German, and Swedish. Methodologically, they take up the usage-based position that structural and functional aspects of language use need to be studied empirically and "bottom-up": Since grammatical structure arises as the entrenched result of recurrent language use, its study should start with the local organization of natural talk-in-interaction before moving on to more complex and abstract relationships between linguistic structure, linguistic meaning, and socio-cultural activity/event patterns. Furthermore, they argue that Dialogism provides a promising starting point for a usage-based approach to linguistic patterns as both emerging (i.e. constructed in response to the situational circumstances of talk-in-interaction) and emergent (i.e. constructed with regard to symbolic units as parts of socially and culturally shared knowledge).

Author / Editor information

Susanne Günthner and Jörg Bücker, University of Münster, Germany; Wolfgang Imo, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction to “Grammar and dialogism: Sequential, syntactic and prosodic patterns between emergence and sedimentation” Susanne Günthner, Wolfgang Imo and Jörg Bücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: A dialogic perspective on communicative practices
“Don’t get me wrong”: Recipient design by using negation to constrain an action’s interpretation Arnulf Deppermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Dialogue and tradition: The open secret of language Jan Anward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Section II: A dialogic perspective on clausal patterns
Evidence for a Dialogical Grammar: Reactive constructions in Swedish and German Per Linell and Christine Mertzlufft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Forms of responsivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Elliptical structures as dialogical resources for the management of understanding Wolfgang Imo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Section III: A dialogic perspective on subordinating constructions
The dynamics of dass-constructions in everyday German interactions – a dialogical perspective Susanne Günthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Some observations on free and sentential relative clauses with “was” (‘what’) in German talk-in-interaction Jörg Bücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Fishing for affiliation. The French double causal construction ‘parce que comme’ from a dialogical linguistics perspective Stefan Pfänder and Marie Skrovec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Section IV: A dialogic perspective on particles and adverbs
This, That and the Other: Prospection, Retraction and Obviation in Dialogical Grammar Paul J. Hopper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Reconstructing the point of reference for stand-alone deswegen Katharina König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Dialogism and the emergence of final particles: The case of and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Sprachwissenschaftler, Bibliotheken, Institute
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Tables: 9
Keywords: Dialogue; Spoken Language; Grammar

eBook

Published: October 29, 2014
ISBN: 9783110358612

Hardcover

Published: October 13, 2014
ISBN: 9783110357967