The pragmatics of interaction / edited by Sigurd D'hondt, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D'hondt, Sigurd.

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Verschueren, Jef.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights, 1877-654X ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xii, 262 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or discursive angles, this fourth volume is dedicated to the empirical investigation of the way human beings organize their interaction in natural environments and how they use talk for accomplishing actions and their contexts. Starting from Goffman's observation that interaction exhibits a structure in its own right that cannot be reduced to the psychological properties of the individual nor to society, it contains a selection of articles documenting the various levels of interactional organization. In addition to treatments of basic concepts such as sequence, participation, prosody and style and some topical articles on phenomena like reported speech and listener response, it also includes overviews of specific traditions (conversation analysis, ethnomethodology) and articles on eminent authors (Goffman, Sacks) who had a formative influence on the field.

Contents:

The Pragmatics of Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of Contents

Preface to the series

Acknowledgements

The pragmatics of interaction: A survey

1. Layers of interactional organization

2. Context, ethnography and categorization

3. Multimodality and mediation

4. Style and indexicality

5. This volume: Interaction as a topic

References

Communicative style

1. Definition, delimitation, basic concepts

2. A few landmark reference works

3. Problems

4. Sample data and methodology of an interactional stylistic analysis

The example

4.1 The first intuitive analysis of speech styles in the given sequential context

4.2 Structural analysis: Decomposition/deconstruction

4.2.1 Recipient reaction after this first part of the story telling

4.3 Functional analysis

4.4 Warranting

4.5 Structural analysis: Decomposition/deconstruction

4.6 Functional analysis

4.7 Warranting

5. Perspectives for future research

Conversation Analysis

1. Introduction

2. Origins and overview

3. Data, transcription and analysis

4. Exhibiting an understanding in next turn

5. Conditional relevance of next position

6. Conclusions

Conversation types

2. Three basic dimensions

2.1 The channel

2.2 Dyadic vs. multi-person

2.3 Everyday vs. institutional

3. Types of institutional talk

4. Symmetry and asymmetry in conversations

5. Conversation types and communicative genres

6. Conclusion

Ethnomethodology

2. Overview

3. Social action, social knowledge

3.1 Norms and rules

3.2 The contexted character of actions

3.2.1 Indexicality

3.2.2 Reflexivity

3.3 Rationality

4. Commonsense reasoning

5. Developments in ethnomethodology

6. Conclusion.

References

Erving Goffman

2. The primacy of the situation

3. Ritual and the sacred self

4. Goffman's working framework

5. Goffman's influence and significance

Note

Interactional linguistics

1. Background

2. Points of departure

3. Topics

4. Possibilities and challenges

Listener response

2. Approaches to the study of listener responses

2.1 The lumping approach

2.1.1 Structural properties of listener response

2.1.2 Roles and functions of listener responses in conversation

2.2 The splitting approach

3. Classification of listener response

4. Cross-cultural study of listener response

5. Gender-differentiated use of listener response

6. Future research

Participation

1. "Phatic communion" and the practices of participation

2. Goffman: Attention, involvement and focused encounters

3. Goffman: Footing

4. Elaborations and critique of footing

5. Conclusion

Politeness

1. Historical overview

2. Approaches to politeness

2.1. Folk notion

2.2 Conversational maxim(s)

2.3 Redress to face-threat

2.4 Social marking

2.5 Conversational contract

2.6 Politeness and politic behavior

2.7 Politeness and tact

3. Expression of politeness

3.1. Inherently polite speech acts?

3.2 Conventions of means

3.3. Conventions of form

4. Variables in politeness investment

5. Discourse perspective

6. Further reading

Prosody

1. Prosody defined

2. Prosody as a pragmatic phenomenon

3. Prosody and early work on spoken discourse

4. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: Structural dimensions

4.1 Turn construction

4.2 Sequential organization

4.3 Floor management

5. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: Interactional dimensions.

5.1 Prosodic routines for action

5.2 Prosodic cueing of stance and affect

6. Prosody in talk-in-interaction: A case study

7. Directions for future research

Reported speech

2. Influential figures

2.1 Vološinov and Bakhtin

2.2 Goffman

3. Forms of reported speech

3.1 Categories and terminology

3.2 The reporting clause

4. Reported speech in discourse

4.1 The authenticity of reported speech

4.2 Reported speech in storytelling

4.3 The interactional environments of reported speech

Harvey Sacks

Sequence

2. The adjacency pair

3. A context of publicly displayed and continuously up-dated intersubjective understandings"

4. Preference

5. Structural consequences of preference organization

6. Sequence organization

7. The power of sequential analysis

Transcription systems for spoken discourse

1. Transcription: Basic terminology

2. Speaking: The behavior under consideration

2.1 The verbal component

2.2 The prosodic component

2.3 The paralinguistic component

2.4 The extralinguistic component

3. Current transcription systems

3.1 Du Bois' discourse transcription (DT)

3.2 Ehlich's heuristic interpretative auditory transcription (HIAT)

3.3 The transcription system of Gumperz &amp

Berenz

3.4 The Jeffersonian tradition

3.5 MacWhinney's CHAT system for the CHILDES project

4. Conclusion: Basic principles for scientific use of transcription

Index

The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612312304

9781282312302

1282312308

9789027289193

9027289190

OCLC:

495277379