Elwys De Stefani

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elwys De Stefani plays a role.

Title

Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.

Articles

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Calabria, Virginia and Elwys De Stefani 2024 E anche -prefaced other-expansions in multi-person interaction: On the interrelationship of syntax and mutual gaze New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 160–184 | Chapter

This chapter investigates a practice used in Italian talk-in-interaction, whereby a speaker self-selects and expands the prior speaker’s talk with a grammatically dependent turn prefaced by e anche ‘and also’. The practice is used either to affiliate or disaffiliate with prior talk, and occurs… read more

De Stefani, Elwys 2024 Displaying a negative stance by questioning meaning: The Italian format Che cosa vuol dire X? (‘What does X mean?’) Interactional Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

Speakers of Italian have at their disposal a variety of phrasal and clausal resources for questioning meaning, among which is the format che cosa vuol dire X? (‘what does X mean?’). Likewise, recent studies on English and German about similar resources have shown that speakers use them to… read more

Deppermann, Arnulf and Elwys De Stefani 2024 Meaning in interaction: Meaning in interaction Interactional Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Introduction

This editorial to the Special Issue on “Meaning in Interaction” introduces to the approach of Interactional Semantics, which has been developed over the last years within the framework of Interactional Linguistics. It discusses how “meaning” is understood and approached in this framework and… read more

De Stefani, Elwys and Lorenza Mondada 2021 Chapter 10. A resource for action transition: OKAY and its embodied and material habitat OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 302–336 | Chapter

This chapter examines French oké and Italian occhei as resources with which interactants manage transitions from one course of action to another. It analyzes different kinds of institutional interactions, such as work meetings, political assemblies, and guided visits in French and Italian. In… read more

De Stefani, Elwys 2020 Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation: Turn-taking, turn-maintaining and turn-yielding Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action, Maschler, Yael, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik (eds.), pp. 25–54 | Chapter

This chapter examines nel senso (che) ‘in the sense (that)’ in present-day conversational Italian. Speakers can use the resource to start a turn, to extend a turn-in-progress, or to yield a turn to a next speaker. In TCU-beginnings, it is describable as a projector construction, allowing speakers… read more

De Stefani, Elwys and Lorenza Mondada 2017 Chapter 6. Who’s the expert? Negotiating competence and authority in guided tours Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 95–124 | Chapter

Guided tours are a “perspicuous setting” (Garfinkel & Wieder 1992) both for the study of asymmetries in professional contexts of interaction as well as for the analysis of how participants negotiate identities, categories and expertise. At first glance, the categorial distinction… read more

De Stefani, Elwys, Paul Sambre and Dorien Van De Mieroop 2016 The interactional history of examples and parentheses: Note-taking practices in multiparty interaction among attendees of a mutual-help group for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) sufferers Writing in interaction, Mondada, Lorenza (ed.), pp. 110–139 | Article

In this article, we set out to examine how participants organize their note-taking while engaged in multiparty interaction. We first describe the collective display of affiliation as an interactional practice that allows note-takers to identify recordables and to legitimize their writing. We then… read more

De Stefani, Elwys 2014 Establishing joint orientation towards commercial objects in a self-service store: How practices of categorisation matter Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Article

This chapter investigates how persons shopping together initiate orientation towards commercial objects that populate self-service stores. Drawing on the methods developed in conversation analysis, it discusses the actions that shoppers accomplish when introducing a ‘new’ object into their… read more

De Stefani, Elwys and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher 2008 Topical and sequential backlinking in a French radio phone-in program: Turn shapes and sequential placements Pragmatics 18:3, pp. 381–406 | Article

Drawing on a corpus of French radio phone-in confidential chats, this paper deals with the resources that participants recurrently employ to get back to a prior course of action following age-inquiry sequences. It might be expected that the age sequence occurs predominantly during the initial,… read more