32.2263, Books: The Grammar of Interactional Language: Wiltschko

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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:16:53
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Grammar of Interactional Language: Wiltschko

 


Title: The Grammar of Interactional Language 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/grammar-interactional-language?format=HB 


Author: Martina Wiltschko

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108481823 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108481823 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108481823 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling
grammatical knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as
huh, eh, yup or yessssss. This groundbreaking book addresses this gap by
providing the first in-depth overview of approaches towards interactional
language across different frameworks and linguistic sub-disciplines. Based on
the insights that emerge, a formal framework is developed to discover and
compare language in interaction across different languages: the interactional
spine hypothesis. Two case-studies are presented: confirmationals (such as eh
and huh) and response markers (such as yes and no), both of which show
evidence for systematic grammatical knowledge. Assuming that language in
interaction is regulated by grammatical knowledge sheds new light on old
questions concerning the relation between language and thought and the
relation between language and communication. It is essential reading for
anyone interested in the relation between language, cognition and social
interaction.
 



Prologue; 1. Interactional language; 2. The Syntacticization of speech acts;
3. From speech acts to interaction; 4. The interactional spine hypothesis; 5.
Initiating moves: a case study of confirmationals; 6. Reacting moves: a case
study of response markers; 7. The grammar of interactional language; Epilogue.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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