The interactive stance : meaning for conversation / Jonathan Ginzburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginzburg, Jonathan, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational -- e.g. self-repair at the word level -- to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening, middle game, and closing stages of conversation. It also offers a new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as quantification and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges orthodox views of grammar by arguing that, unless we wish to exclude from analysis a large body of frequently occurring words and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterizes types of talk in interaction.

Contents:

Interaction, grammar, and the behavioural sciences

From communitarian to interactive semantics

A semantic ontology for dialogue

Basic interaction in dialogue

A grammar for dialogue

Grounding and CRification

Non-sentential utterances in conversation

Extensions

An interaction-oriented theory of meaning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [390]-405) and index.

ISBN:

9780199697922

0199697922

OCLC:

742512011