Emergent syntax for conversation : clausal patterns and the organization of action / edited by Yael Maschle [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maschle, Yael, editor.

Series:

Studies in language and social interaction ; Volume 32.

Studies in language and social interaction ; Volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Case studies.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax - that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause - relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are 'patched together' on the fly, as well as their routinization and sedimentation into new grammatical patterns across a range of languages - English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Mandarin, and Swedish. The chapters investigate how the real-time organization of complex syntax relates to the unfolding of turns and actions, focusing on: (i) how complex syntactic patterns, or routinized fragments of 'canonical' patterns, serve as resources for projection, (ii) how complex syntactic patterns emerge incrementally, moment-by-moment, out of the real-time trajectories of action, (iii) how formal variants of such patterns relate to social action, and (iv) how all of these play out within the multimodal ecologies of action formation. The empirical findings presented in this volume lend support to a conception of complex syntax as fundamentally temporal, emergent, dialogic, sensitive to local interactional contingencies, and interwoven with other semiotic resources"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Complex syntax-in-interaction: Emergent and emerging clause-combining patterns for organizing social actions / Simona Pekarek Doehler, Yael Maschler, Leelo Keevallik and Jan Lindström

Part I. Emerging projecting constructions: 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation: Turn-taking, turn-maintaining and turn-yielding / Elwys De Stefani

3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella 'think' and tietää 'know' in Finnish talk-in-interaction / Ritva Laury and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

4. The insubordinate - subordinate continuum: Prosody, embodied action, and the emergence of Hebrew complex syntax / Yael Maschler

5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse: The ha'emet (hi) she- 'the truth (is) that' construction / Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki

6. From matrix clause to turn expansion: The emergence of wo juede 'I feel/think' in Mandarin conversational interaction / Wei Wang and Hongyin Tao

Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns: 7. Practices of clause-combining: From complex wenn-constructions to insubordinate ('stand-alone') conditionals in everyday spoken German / Susanne Günthner

8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action: The Estonian ja 'and' as a temporal organizer of Pilates moves / Leelo Keevallik

9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities: Directives and accounts in the context of physical training / Jan Lindström, Camilla Lindholm, Inga-Lill Grahn and Martina Huhtamäki

10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction (Re-)specifying propositional referents of the demonstrative pronoun das / Nadine Proske and Arnulf Deppermann

11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference: A multimodal analysis of French talk-in-interaction / Ioana-Maria Stoenica and Simona Pekarek Doehler

12. Afterword / Paul J. Hopper.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027261939

9027261938