Compliments and compliment responses : grammatical structure and sequential organization / Andrea Golato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golato, Andrea.

Series:

Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 15.

Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compliments.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the first to analyze the entire complimenting sequence within the larger interactional context, thereby demonstrating the interconnectedness of sequence organization, turn-design, and (varying) function(s) of a turn. In this regard, the present study makes a novel contribution to the study of talk-in-interaction beyond German. The book adds to existing work on interaction and grammar by closely analyzing the functions of linguistic resources used to design compliment turns and compliment responses. Here, the study extends previous Conversation Analytic work on person reference by including an analysis of inanimate object reference. Lastly, the book discusses the use and function of various particles and demonstrates how speaker alignments and misalignments are accomplished through various grammatical forms.

Contents:

Compliments and Compliment Responses

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Preliminaries

2. Methodology

3. Giving compliments. The design of first compliment turns

4. Giving compliments. Sequential embedding and function of first compliment turns

5. Compliments in multi-party interactions

6. Compliment responses

7. Concluding discussion

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

References

Name index

Subject index

The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-15699-3

9786612156991

90-272-9472-0

OCLC:

567848837