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Title Syntax and lexis in conversation : studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction / edited by Auli Hakulinen, Margret Selting
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages)
Series Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 17
Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 17. 0928-8929
Contents Syntax and Lexis in Conversation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Syntactic resources in conversation; Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation; Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversation; Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation; Pivot constructions in spoken German; The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversation; Grammatical constructions in r̀̀eal life practices''
Summary 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 syntac
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Conversation analysis.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Lexicology.
Semantics.
Semantics
semantics.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Friendship.
Conversation analysis
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Lexicology
Semantics
Conversatie.
Syntaxis.
Lexicologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Hakulinen, Auli.
Selting, Margret
ISBN 9789027294173
9027294178
9789027226273
902722627X