Dialogue in Spanish : studies in functions and contexts / edited by Dale April Koike, Lidia Rodriguez-Alfano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koike, Dale April.

Rodríguez, Lidia, 1941-

Series:

Dialogue studies ; 7.

Dialogue studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Discourse analysis.

Spanish language.

Dialogue analysis.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 324 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study argues for expectations as a basis for L2 production/interpretation of speech acts and implicatures in talk. It examines the role of expectations in pragmatic expression/interpretation in NS-learner dialogue, and whether expectations can be used to approach L2 study. Two Spanish learners were recorded in individual interactions with an unfamiliar NS while abroad. Analysis reveals that expectations by all participants guided pragmatic expressions/interpretation. The NS was able to adjust expectations to the reality of the talk quickly while the learners delayed but did change to achieve greater communicative efficiency, including variation of speech acts, implicatures and use of pragmatic markers. These observations suggest benefits from examining various expectations to frame pragmatics use/interpretation in natural dialogue.

Contents:

Dialogue in Spanish

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation

Part 2: Dialogue in public, professional, and educational interactions

Conclusions and implications of studies that approach dialogue in its complexity

1. A continuum of approaches to dialogue

1. Introduction

2. Review of conceptions of dialogue

2.1 Bakhtin's approach to dialogue

2.2 Halliday's approach: Dialogue and interaction

2.3 Linell's approach: Dialogue and interaction

2.4 Other conceptions of 'dialogue'

3. The construction of a continuum

3.1. High end of the continuum: Maximum relevance of the epistemological function of dialogue

3.2 Second point of the continuum: Some relevance assigned to the epistemological function of dialogue

3.3 Third point of the continuum: Less relevance of the epistemological function of dialogue

3.4. Low end of the continuum: Minimum relevance of the epistemological function of dialogue

4. Toward a definition of dialogue

5. Final considerations

Part I. Dialogue in interpersonal contexts of informal conversation

2. Dialogues within oral narratives

2. Oral conversational narratives

3. Reconstructed dialogue in oral narratives

3.1 Turns in reconstructed dialogue: Direct quotations and indirect quotations

3.2 The internal structure of reconstructed dialogue

4. The relationship of reconstructed dialogues with social and stylistic variables

5. Conclusions

3. Being polite through irony

2. Irony

3. Politeness

4. The function of politeness in irony

5. Our proposal

6. Analysis of examples

6.1 Examples of irony with a negative effect

6.2 Examples of irony of positive effect

7. An overview of the two groups of examples.

8. Conclusions

4. Humor in verbal irony

2. Linguistic theories of verbal humor

3. Humorous texts

4. Verbal irony

5. Evaluation, interpersonal meaning and co-construction in oral narratives by Mexican adolescents

1. Introduct

2. The present study

3. Phonetic evaluation

4. Lexico-grammatical resources

5. The distribution of evaluation

6. The phenomenon of rhythm

7. Conclusion

Appendix A. Narrative texts studied

Appendix B. Glossary of colloquial terms

6. The truth about verdad

2. Data

3. Degrees of assertiveness and lexical expression

4. Discourse markers

5. Coherence and discursive implications

6. Propositional presupposition: The corroborative use of verdad

7. Propositional strengthening: The assertive use of verdad

8. What is shared and what is not shared

9. Verdad in judgments and opinions

10. Verdad and personal information

11. Conclusion

7. Backchannels as a realization of interaction

2. Background

3. Methodology

4. Quantitative data on the use of Mm and Mhm in the dialogues

5. Functions of Mm and Mhm

5.1 Function as a conversational continuer

5.2 Mm at the beginning of an intervention

5.3 Mm at the end of an intervention by the same speaker

5.4 Function as acknowledgment of comprehension

5.5 Mm in answers to questions or exhortations

6. Conclusions

Part II. Dialogue in public, professional, and educational contexts

8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practice

2. An analytical frame

2.1 Dialogue in political practice

2.2 Dialogue and dialogicity

2.3 Dialogue and grammar

2.4 Dialogue and context

2.5 Dialogue and interaction

2.6 The initial categories of discourse

2.7 Evaluation as a central notion.

2.8 The critical analysis of dialogue

3. The data and procedures

3.1 Changes in the dialogue and the focus of the studies

4. Changes in the dynamics of discourse

4.1 The discourse of Venezuelan presidents

4.2 Insult as a political strategy

4.3 The polarization of the press

4.4 The militarization of dialogue

4.5 The effects of polarization

4.6 Insults across national boundaries

9. Conflict resolution

2. Theoretical framework

2.1 Politeness theory and socioculturally-specific politeness

2.2 Spanish and Mexican politeness tendencies

2.3 Comparative politeness studies

2.4 Linguistic strategies, face threatening acts, and social influences on linguistic politeness

2.5 Face-threatening acts

2.6 Social influences

3. Research questions

4. Methods

4.1 Participants

4.2 Dialogue situations

4.3 Procedure

4.4 Data analysis

5. Results

5.1 Linguistic repair strategies: Total quantitative results

5.2 Influence of monetary amount: Quantitative results

5.3 Linguistic strategies: Qualitative results

5.4 Findings

5.5 Discussion

Appendix 1. Dialogue situations

Appendix 2. Visual stimuli examples

Appendix 3. Select examples of Spanish and Mexican data by situation

10. A discourse analysis of Alzheimer-type dementia in personal conversations

2. Text and context: Fundamental elements of conversation

3. The study of language disorders in people with Alzheimer-type dementia

4. Conversational repair

5. Conversational repair in the discourse of people with Alzheimer-type dementia

6. Discussion of results

7. Conclusions

11. Triadic discourse

2. Models of interpretation

3. Problems in triadic roles and relationships

4. A reformulation of Wadensjö's model.

5. Interpreter do's and don'ts

6. Application to data from court interpretation

7. Application to healthcare interpreting

8. Procedural roles by interpreters

9. The participatory status of the interpreter

10. Conclusions

12. Behind L2 pragmatics

2. Studies on expectations and language

2.1 Expectations in pragmatic expression and interpretation

2.2 Expectations and second language learning

4. Methodology of data collection

4.2 Procedures

5. Analysis of the results

5.1 Conversation 1: Amy and Paco

5.2 Conversation 2: Mary and Paco

5.3 Paco's discourse

6. Summary

Appendix

1. The studies and their placement in the continuum of dialogue

2. Conclusions drawn from these studies

3. Implications and general remarks

References

General index

List of contributors

The series Dialogue Studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613773487

9781281042491

1281042498

9789027288103

9027288100

OCLC:

705533485