Subordination in conversation : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Ritva Laury, Ryoko Suzuki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laury, Ritva.

Suzuki, Ryoko.

Series:

Studies in language and social interaction ; v. 24.

Studies in language and social interaction, 1879-3983 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Subordinate constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The English I mean and the Japanese teyuuka differ syntactically and semantically, but they have similar pragmatized uses. Both verbs, mean and yuu, function as regular verbs in main clauses and also as part of formulaic expressions which indicate a modal meaning with respect to an utterance, or project back to an earlier utterance and index it as inadequate or in need of modification. Both constructions can also frame another expression as a modification of the earlier utterance. They also function metacommunicatively to manage the interaction on a strategic level. The article compares the structure and functions of these two constructions in conversation and shows how structurally different expressions used in certain kinds of discourse and interactional contexts have come to serve similar but not identical pragmatic needs.

Contents:

Subordination in Conversation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Functional explanations for language phenomena

The focus of this book - 'Subordination'

Contents of the volume

Contribution to subordination research and future directions

References

N be that-constructions in everyday German conversation

1. Introduction

2. Uses of N be that-constructions in German

2.1 'die Sache ist/das Ding ist'-utterances followed by a subordinate clause introduced with the subjunctor 'dass'

2.2 'die Sache ist/das Ding ist'-utterances followed by a main clause

2.3. 'die Sache ist/das Ding ist'-utterances followed by a complex stretch of discourse

3. Conclusions

Appendix: Transcription conventions (based on GAT)

Interrogative "complements" and question design in Estonian

The data

Projecting actions 1: The imperative of 'say'

Projecting actions 2: The imperative of 'tell, talk'

Marking intersubjective uncertainty: The negation of 'know'

Marking topical continuity across sequences: The adjective 'interesting'

Conclusion

Transcription and glossing conventions

Syntactic and actional characteristics of Finnish että-clauses

2. Data

3. The use of että with complement-taking predicates

4. Että as an utterance-initial particle

5. The turn-final että

6. Discussion

7. Conclusions

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Clause-combining and the sequencing of actions

2. Data, procedure and the grammatical patterns under discussion

3. Clause-combining, projection and the sequencing of actions

3.1 Projection

3.2 'Je veux dire'

3.3 'Il y a+NP' ('there is+NP')

3.4 Pseudocleft-like constructions.

3.5 Summary and initial discussion of the findings

4. Projector constructions and the construction of complex turns

4.1. 'Je veux dire' projector constructions in complex turns

4.2 'Il y a NP' projector constructions in complex turns

4.3 'ce qui/ce que x' (wh-clause) projector constructions in complex turns

5. Discussion: Projector constructions and the temporal unfolding of talk-in-interaction

6. Conclusion

Symbols used in transcripts

Symbols used in the gloss

A note on the emergence of quotative constructions in Japanese conversation

2. Background and hypothesis

3. Data

4. Observation of the early occurrences of tte in the 1800s

4.1 Tte clause as dependent clause: Quotative complement with tte, followed by a main clause

4.2 Tte clause as independent clause: Quotative tte in utterance-final positions

5. Final remarks

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Text references

Clines of subordination - constructions with the German 'complement-taking predicate' glauben

2. The data

3. From matrix clause to discourse marker

4. From matrix clause to increment

5. From matrix clause to modal particle

6. Clines of subordination: A discussion of the results

7. Phrases with glauben as instances of fragmentary language

Literature

Are kara 'because'-clauses causal subordinate clauses in present-day Japanese?

3. Background

3.1 Cline of clause-combining constructions in grammaticalization

3.2 Previous studies on the history of kara-clauses

3.3 Previous studies on kara-clauses in present-day Japanese

4. The diachronic process in kara-clauses

4.1. Clause combination

4.2 Interpretations of kara-clauses

4.3 Summary of the diachronic process of kara-clauses

5. Discussion.

6. Conclusion

Teyuuka and I mean as pragmatic parentheticals in Japanese and English

1. Introduction.

3. The structure and function of I mean

3.1 The syntactic environments of I mean

3.2 The pragmatic function of I mean

4. Structure and Function of teyuuka

4. 1 The syntactic environments of teyuuka

4.2 Pragmatic functions of teyuuka

5. Discussion and conclusion

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613174918

9781283174916

128317491X

9789027286963

9027286965

OCLC:

741492698