Grammar in action : building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction /

"Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates how it is possible to write comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Lingui...

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Other Authors: Steensig, Jakob, 1958- (Editor), Jørgensen, Maria (Editor), Lindström, Jan K. (Editor), Mikkelsen, Nicholas (Editor), Suomalainen, Karita (Editor), Sørensen, Søren Sandager (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2025]
Series:Studies in language and social interaction ; v. 37.
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Summary:"Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates how it is possible to write comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics, which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, and they make concrete proposals about how the phenomena may be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target groups, and how a web-based grammar may be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction"--
Physical Description:vi, 440 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789027220080
9027220085
ISSN:1879-3983 ;