The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction
Editors
This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.
The book received the prestigious national Rafael Monroy Research Prize for Experienced Researchers from the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) on 28 March 2019.
The book received the prestigious national Rafael Monroy Research Prize for Experienced Researchers from the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA) on 28 March 2019.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 296] 2018. vi, 304 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 August 2018
Published online on 27 August 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: How is discourse constructed and evaluation achieved in verbal interaction?María de los Ángeles Gómez González and J. Lachlan Mackenzie | pp. 1–10
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Section I. Discourse structure and verbal interaction
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The encoding and signalling of discourse relations in argumentative discourse: Evidence across production formatsAnita Fetzer | pp. 13–44
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A typological approach to the encoding of motion eventsWojciech Lewandowski | pp. 45–74
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Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper textsJulia Lavid and Lara Moratón | pp. 75–108
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“God that came out quick didn’t it eh”: Variable and invariable tag questions in spoken British EnglishMaría de los Ángeles Gómez González | pp. 109–144
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The use of tag questions in the oral production of L2 English learnersSusana M. Doval-Suárez and Elsa González Álvarez | pp. 145–170
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“Okay … so … nice to meet you? {smiles}”: Openings in ELF Skype conversationsMarie-Louise Brunner and Stefan Diemer | pp. 171–197
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Section II. Evaluation and engagement
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Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse systems for expressing stance and evaluationDouglas Biber, Jesse Egbert and Meixiu Zhang | pp. 201–226
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Emotion and appraisal processes in language: How are they related?Laura Alba-Juez | pp. 227–250
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Empathy versus engagement: A storyworld possible selves approach to narrative discourseMaría-Ángeles Martínez | pp. 251–272
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Two dimensions of language intensity in evaluative discourse: Contextuality and semantic richnessChristine Liebrecht, Lettica Hustinx, Margot van Mulken and Peter Jan Schellens | pp. 273–296
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Term Index | pp. 297–300
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Author Index | pp. 301–304
“The book is thought-provoking and it is an illuminating guide for scholars who have keen interest in pragmatics, EP and cognitive science. Readers will gain a better understanding of experiment and the relation between theory and experiment, increasing their awareness of pragmatics itself.”
Nazish Malik, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China & The COMSATS University
Islamabad, Pakistan, in Discourse Studies Volume 22(1) (2020)
Islamabad, Pakistan, in Discourse Studies Volume 22(1) (2020)
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2020. Patterns of path encoding in German. In Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions [Human Cognitive Processing, 69], ► pp. 63 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics