34.1600, Books: The Grammar of Interactives: Heine

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Date: 12-May-2023
From: Rachel Havard [rachel.havard at oup.com]
Subject: The Grammar of Interactives: Heine


Title: The Grammar of Interactives
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-grammar-of-inter
actives-9780192871497?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_
campaign=linguistics

Author: Bernd Heine
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192871497 Pages: 480 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Abstract:

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as
'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical
descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much
previous work has treated interactive grammar as a fairly marginal
part of language, Bernd Heine describes it here as a distinct category
that contrasts with sentence grammar both in its functions and its
structural behavior. He identifies ten types of interactives - i.e.
extra-clausal expressions of linguistic discourse: attention signals,
directives, discourse markers, evaluatives, ideophones, interjections,
response elicitors, response signals, social formulae, and vocatives.

The analysis reveals that speakers make use of two contrasting modes
for structuring their discourses, both of which are needed for
successful communication: one is sentence grammar, which has a
propositional format and analytic organization; the other is
interactive grammar, which has a holophrastic organization and a focus
on social communication. While the argument structure of sentence
grammar is shaped by the propositional format of sentences, that of
interactive grammar is shaped by the indexical nature of the situation
of discourse. This distinction shows interesting correlations both
with findings from neurolinguistic studies on differential activity in
the two hemispheres of the human brain, and with observations from
social psychology on the differences between systems of reasoning and
judgment.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)

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