Interaction and grammar / edited by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Sandra A. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ochs, Elinor.

Schegloff, Emanuel A.

Thompson, Sandra A.

Series:

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 13.

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Social interaction.

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

xii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure which is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very different way of approaching and understanding grammar, taking it as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and emphasizing its role in the use of language in everyday interaction and cognition. Taking as their starting-point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly with social interaction, their essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar.

Contents:

2 Turn organization: one intersection of grammar and interaction / Emanuel A. Schegloff 52

3 Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns / Cecilia E. Ford, Sandra A. Thompson 134

4 Resources and repair: a cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair / Barbara A. Fox, Makoto Hayashi, Robert Jasperson 185

5 On the "semi-permeable" character of grammatical units in conversation: conditional entry into the turn space of another speaker / Gene H. Lerner 238

6 On repeats and responses in Finnish conversations / Marja-Leena Sorjonen 277

7 "When I come down I'm in the domain state": grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive activity of physicists / Elinor Ochs, Patrick Gonzales, Sally Jacoby 328

8 Transparent vision / Charles Goodwin 370

9 Conversational signifying: grammar and indirectness among African American women / Marcyliena Morgan 405

10 Creating evidence: making sense of written words in Bosavi / Bambi B. Schieffelin 435.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521552257

052155828X

OCLC:

123273832