Multimodality, interaction and turn-taking in Mandarin conversation / Xiaoting Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Xiaoting (Linguistic), author.

Series:

Studies in Chinese language and discourse ; Volume 3.

Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 1879-5382 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mandarin dialects--Conversation and phrase books.

Mandarin dialects.

Mandarin dialects--Pronunciation by foreign speakers.

Mandarin dialects--Terms and phrases.

Mandarin dialects--Discourse analysis.

Mandarin dialects--Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action and interaction. Adopting the methodology of interactional linguistics, this book offers a fine-grained analysis of the three multimodal resources and the sequential environments in which they appear. It demonstrates that syntax, prosody and body movements not only converge but also diverge in projecting possible turn completion. As one of the few systematic studies of multimodality in Mandarin interaction, this book will be of interest to researchers in Chinese linguistics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, and multimodal analysis.

Contents:

Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Transcription conventions

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Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Orientation

1.2 Turn organization in Mandarin conversation

1.2.1 Basic organization of turn-taking in Mandarin conversation

1.2.2 Turn projection

1.3 Multimodal resources in turn organization

1.3.1 Syntax and turn organization

1.3.2 Prosody and turn organization

1.3.3 Body movements and turn organization

1.3.4 Interaction of multimodal resources and turn organization

1.4 Chapter summary and overview of the book

Chapter 2. Preliminaries and Methodology

2.1 The data

2.2 Data transcription

2.3 Methodological approach of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics

2.3.1 Conversation analysis

2.3.2 Interactional linguistics

2.4 Summary

Chapter 3. Syntax in turn organization

3.1 Syntactic structure and turn construction

3.1.1 Topic-comment structure and turn construction

3.1.1.1 Placement of next-turn onset

3.1.1.2 Placement of acknowledgement tokens

3.1.1.3 Topic-comment structure revisited

3.1.2 Copula-complement structure and turn construction

3.1.3 Local management of syntactic structuring in turn construction

3.1.4 Interim summary and discussion

3.2 Syntactic features and turn completion

3.2.1 Word order and turn completion

3.2.2 Utterance-final particles and turn completion

3.2.3 Lexcio-syntactic constructions and turn completion

3.3 Summary

Chapter 4. Prosody in Turn Organization

4.1 Prosody and turn construction

4.1.1 Definition of intonation units

4.1.2 Intonation units in Mandarin conversation

4.1.2.1 Internal criterion

4.1.2.2 External criteria

4.1.3 Intonation units and turn-constructional units.

4.1.3.1 Intonation units and turn-constructional units in single-TCU turns

4.1.3.2 Intonation units and turn-constructional units in multi-TCU turns

4.1.4 Interim summary

4.2 Prosody and turn completion

4.2.1 Preliminaries to analysis

4.2.2 Prosodic features of turn completion

4.2.2.1 The possible last accent and turn completion

4.2.2.2 Discussions of contingent cases

4.2.2.3 Interim summary

4.3 Summary

Chapter 5. Body movements in turn organization

5.1 Preliminaries: Organizational feature of body movements

5.2 Hand movements and turn organization

5.2.1 Gesture units

5.2.2 Gesture units and turn construction

5.2.2.1 Gesture units and single-TCU turns

5.2.2.2 Gesture units and multi-TCU turns

5.2.3 Hand movements and turn completion

5.2.4 Interactional evidence for the relevance of hand movements

5.2.5 Interim summary

5.3 Postural shifts and turn organization

5.3.1 Postural shifts

5.3.2 Postural shifts and larger interactional units

5.3.2.1 Postural shifts and extended turns

5.3.2.2 Postural shifts and sequences

5.3.3 Interim summary

5.4 Summary

Chapter 6. Interplay of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization

6.1 Convergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization

6.2 Divergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization

6.2.1 The role of syntax and pragmatic resources in the divergence

6.2.2 The role of prosody and pragmatic resources in the divergence

6.2.3 The role of body movements and pragmatic resources in the divergence

6.2.4 The role of pragmatic resources in the divergence

6.3 Management of divergence and contingency

6.4 Summary

Chapter 7. Conclusion

7.1 Summary

7.2 Implications and future research directions.

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270535

9027270538

OCLC:

881607422