Building coherence and cohesion : task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish / Maria Teresa Taboada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taboada, María Teresa.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 129.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; 129

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Spanish.

Spanish language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Discourse analysis.

English language--Spoken English.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish.

Conversation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other's contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main contributions of the book are: a corpus-based characterization of a spoken genre (task-oriented dialogue); the compilation of a body of analysis tools for generic analysis; application of English-based analyses to Spanish and comparison between the two languages; and a study of the characteristics of each generic stage in task-oriented dialogue.

Contents:

Building Coherence and Cohesion

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations and conventions

Preface

Introduction

A framework for the analysis of speech genres

2.1. Genre defined

2.1.1. Bakhtin's speech genres

2.1.2. Register analysis, functional genre theory and generic structure potential

2.1.3. Genre and register

2.1.4. Genres, frames, scripts and schemata

2.1.5. Genres and prototype theory

2.1.6. A working definition of genre

2.2. Applications of generic analysis

2.3. Components in a generic analysis of conversation

2.4. Scheduling dialogues as genre

Notes

Data description

3.1. The task

3.2. Recording

3.3. Transcription conventions

3.3.1. Human noises

3.3.2. Silence

3.3.3. Mispronunciations

3.3.4. False starts

3.3.5. Transcriber comments

3.3.6. Unit markers

3.3.7. Other conventions

3.3.8. Summary of transcription conventions

3.4. Speaker pairs and dialogues

3.5. Use of terms and translations

3.6. Other remarks on the corpus

Note

The thematic structure of dialogue

4.1. The many accounts of Theme-like concepts

4.2. Thematic realization in English and in Spanish

4.2.1. English

4.2.2. Spanish

4.3. Thematic realization in scheduling dialogues

4.3.1. Two examples

4.3.2. Thematic selection patterns

4.3.3. Thematic selection and Transitivity

4.4. Definition and articulation of thematic progression

4.5. Thematic progression in scheduling dialogues

4.6. Thematic progression and genre

4.7. Summary

Rhetorical relations in dialogue

5.1. Rhetorical relations and text analysis

5.2. Mann &amp

Thompson's Rhetorical Structure Theory

5.3. Rhetorical relations in the present study

5.4. RST in conversation.

5.5. Results: Turn-by-turn analysis

5.5.1. Background

5.5.2. Concession

5.5.3. Condition

5.5.4. Elaboration

5.5.5. Joint

5.5.6. Non-Volitional Cause

5.5.7. Non-Volitional Result

5.5.8. Restatement

5.5.9. Volitional Result

5.6. Results: Conversation-as-a-whole analysis

5.6.1. Evaluation

5.6.2. Solutionhood

5.6.3. Restatement

5.7. Discourse markers

5.8. Summary

Cohesion in dialogue

6.1. A brief introduction to cohesion

6.1.1. Texture and structure, coherence and cohesion

6.1.2. Types of cohesive relations

6.1.3. Distance of cohesion and cohesive chains

6.2. Cohesion in scheduling dialogues

6.2.1. Cohesion types

6.2.2. Distances: Types and length

6.2.3. Chains: Types and length

6.3. Summary

The generic structure of scheduling dialogues

7.1. Stages in scheduling dialogues

7.2. Speech acts

7.3. Development of stages through speech acts

7.4. Thematic structure and staging

7.5. Rhetorical relations and staging

7.6. Cohesion and staging

7.7. Characterization of stages

7.8. Summary

Conclusions and consequences

Speech act inventory

a.1. Accept

a.2. Ask-date

a.3. Backchannel

a.4. Channel

a.5. Filled-pause

a.6. Goodbye

a.7. Greeting

a.8. Inform

a.9. Inform-availability

a.10. Other

a.11. Politey

a.12. Propose-action

a.13. Propose-place

a.14. Reject-date

a.15. Repeat-confirm

a.16. Request-action

a.17. Request-confirmation

a.18. Request-date

a.19. Request-information

a.20. Request-meeting

a.21. Request-place

a.22. Self-introduction

a.23. Vocative

References

Name index

Subject index

The Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160189

9781282160187

1282160184

9789027295057

9027295050

OCLC:

427510440