Grammar and dialogism : sequential, syntactic, and prosodic patterns between emergence and sedimentation / edited by Susanne Günthner, Wolfgang Imo and Jörg Bücker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Günthner, Susanne, editor.

Imo, Wolfgang, editor.

Bücker, Jörg, editor.

Series:

Linguistik, Impulse & Tendenzen ; Volume 61.

Linguistik, Impulse & Tendenzen, 1612-8702 ; Volume 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functional discourse grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims at analyzing the relationship between the dialogical accomplishment of spoken talk-in-interaction on the one hand and entrenched patterns of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge (constructions, frames, and communicative genres) on the other. The contributions analyze linguistic patterns in different languages such as English, French, German, and Swedish. Methodologically, they take up the usage-based position that structural and functional aspects of language use need to be studied empirically and "bottom-up": Since grammatical structure arises as the entrenched result of recurrent language use, its study should start with the local organization of natural talk-in-interaction before moving on to more complex and abstract relationships between linguistic structure, linguistic meaning, and socio-cultural activity/event patterns. Furthermore, they argue that Dialogism provides a promising starting point for a usage-based approach to linguistic patterns as both emerging (i.e. constructed in response to the situational circumstances of talk-in-interaction) and emergent (i.e. constructed with regard to symbolic units as parts of socially and culturally shared knowledge).

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction to "Grammar and dialogism: Sequential, syntactic and prosodic patterns between emergence and sedimentation" / Günthner, Susanne / Imo, Wolfgang / Bücker, Jörg

Section I: A dialogic perspective on communicative practices

"Don't get me wrong": Recipient design by using negation to constrain an action's interpretation / Deppermann, Arnulf

Dialogue and tradition: The open secret of language / Anward, Jan

Section II: A dialogic perspective on clausal patterns

Evidence for a Dialogical Grammar: Reactive constructions in Swedish and German / Linell, Per / Mertzlufft, Christine

Forms of responsivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation / Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth / Fox, Barbara A. / Thompson, Sandra A.

Elliptical structures as dialogical resources for the management of understanding / Imo, Wolfgang

Section III: A dialogic perspective on subordinating constructions

The dynamics of dass-constructions in everyday German interactions - a dialogical perspective / Günthner, Susanne

Some observations on free and sentential relative clauses with "was" ('what') in German talk-in-interaction / Bücker, Jörg

Fishing for affiliation. The French double causal construction 'parce que comme' from a dialogical linguistics perspective / Pfänder, Stefan / Skrovec, Marie

Section IV: A dialogic perspective on particles and adverbs

This, That and the Other: Prospection, Retraction and Obviation in Dialogical Grammar / Hopper, Paul J.

Reconstructing the point of reference for stand-alone deswegen / König, Katharina

Dialogism and the emergence of final particles: The case of and / Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110358612

3110358611

9783110394474

3110394472

OCLC:

898769717