Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions - Couverture rigide

Thompson, Sandra A.; Fox, Barbara A.; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107031028 ISBN 13 : 9781107031029

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sandra A. Thompson is Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Barbara A. Fox is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is a senior researcher associated with the Center of Excellence for Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107031028
• ISBN 13: 9781107031029
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
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