16.3663, Books: Discourse Analysis/Syntax, English: Ford

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Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Grammar in Interaction: Ford 

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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:54:14
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Grammar in Interaction: Ford 

Title: Grammar in Interaction 
Subtitle: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations 
Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 9  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521023757 

Author: Cecilia E. Ford

Paperback: ISBN: 0521023750 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 16.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521023750 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 28.99

Abstract:

Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in
conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction
strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars
reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary
site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional
as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists
use grammar to coordinate their joint language production. The management
of the complexities of the sequential development of a conversation, and
the social roles of conversational participants, have been extensively
examined within the sociological approach of Conversation Analysis. Dr Ford
uses Conversation Analysis as a framework for the interpretation of
interclausal relations in her database of American English conversations.
Her book contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse,
which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than
dialogic functions of language. 

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the conversational corpus
3. Initial adverbial clauses
4. Final versus initial adverbial clauses in continuous intonation
5. Final adverbial clauses after ending intonation
6. Comparison of clause types and apparent deviations from the general patterns
7. Conclusion 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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