Syntax and Lexis in Conversation

Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction

Editors

Auli Hakulinen | University of Helsinki

Margret Selting | University of Potsdam

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This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Italian and Swedish. Some of the studies deal with similar practices in two different languages, which enables cross-linguistic comparisons. The notion of 'construction' is brought together with an interactional perspective; the fact that constructions cannot always be clearly analysed as either syntactic or lexico-semantic has its reflection in this volume.

So far, there have been fewer attempts at interactionally oriented work on lexical and semantic phenomena than on syntactic constructions. In this volume, several papers show the interactional relevance of word selection and lexical semantic issues. In the future, studies on syntax and lexico-semantics in interaction will enrich realistic grammars of our languages, and cross-linguistic description of comparable practices of organizing talk in interaction will be invaluable for the study of both inter-European and international communication.

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.17

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting | pp. 1–14

Part I. Syntactic resources in conversation

Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation

Margret Selting | pp. 17–44

Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversation

Outi Duvallon and Sara Routarinne | pp. 45–74

Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation

Peter Auer | pp. 75–102

Pivot constructions in spoken German

Hannes Scheutz | pp. 103–128

The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversation

Chiara M. Monzoni | pp. 129–157

Grammatical constructions in “real life practices”: WO-constructions in everyday German

Susanne Günthner | pp. 159–184

Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children’s speech

Anthony Wootton | pp. 185–207

Language as social action: A study of how senior citizens request assistance with practical tasks in the Swedish home help service

Anna Lindström | pp. 209–230

Part II. Lexico-semantic resources in conversation

The interactional generation of exaggerated versions in conversation

Paul Drew | pp. 233–255

A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: ‘Concessive repair’

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 257–288

Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrasting

Arnulf Deppermann | pp. 289–317

Form and function of ‘first verbs’ in talk-in-interaction

Stephanie Schulze-Wenck | pp. 319–348

Notes on disaligning ‘yes but’ initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responses

Jakob Steensig and Birte Asmuß | pp. 349–373

Where grammar and interaction meet: The preference for matched polarity in responsive turns in Danish

Trine Heinemann | pp. 375–402

Index | pp. 403–406

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