Building categories in interaction : linguistic resources at work / edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini, Eugenio Goria.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mauri, Caterina, 1981- editor.

Goria, Eugenio, editor.

Fiorentini, Ilaria, editor.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion

Studies in Language Companion ; v.220

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Categorization (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Categorization (Linguistics).

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Conversation analysis--Congresses.

Conversation analysis.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be 'put to work' in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Building categories in interaction

Chapter 2. Ad hoc categorization in linguistic interaction

Chapter 3. Categories at the interface of cognition and action

Chapter 4. Category-building lists between grammar and interaction

Chapter 5. Are new words predictable?

Chapter 6. The Camel Humps prosodic pattern

Chapter 7. Making the implicit explicit

Chapter 8. Online text mapping

Chapter 9. Exemplification in interaction

Chapter 10. The on-line construction of meaning in Mandarin Chinese

Chapter 11. Et cetera, eccetera, etc. The development of a general extender from Latin to Italian

Chapter 12. Morphopragmatics of rhyming and imitative co-compounds in Russian

Chapter 13. Encoding ad hoc categories in Georgian

Chapter 14. French type-noun constructions based on genre

Chapter 15. In a manner of speaking

Chapter 16. Why it’s hard to construct ad hoc number concepts

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Chapters are based on contributions to the workshop Building Categories in Interaction: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Categorization, held in Bologna on October 19-20, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Mauri, Caterina Building Categories in Interaction

ISBN:

9789027258991

9027258996

OCLC:

1268122996