35.2437, Books: (Non)referentiality in Conversation: Ewing and Laury (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: (Non)referentiality in Conversation: Ewing and Laury (eds.) (2024)


Title: (Non)referentiality in Conversation
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series   344
Publication Year: 20240801
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.344

Editor: Michael C. Ewing
Editor: Ritva Laury
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214621 Pages: 215 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214621 Pages: 215 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214621 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214621 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247049 Pages: 215 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247049 Pages: 215 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247049 Pages: 215 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to
at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this
early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English.
The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that
examines referentiality through naturalistic data in context. Taking
an interactional approach to (non)referentiality, contributors to this
volume ask how participants talk in real time about persons and things
as individuals or as categories, and what distinguishes ‘referential’
from ‘nonreferential’, ‘specific’ from ‘nonspecific’, and ‘generic’
from ‘nongeneric’. Crucially, we ask whether these distinctions even
matter to participants in conversation, and if they do, what the
evidence for that would be. Contributors investigate these issues
using data from conversational interaction in a variety of social
contexts – including between close friends and family to more casual
acquaintances, in service encounters, and between adults and children
– and in a range of languages: English, Finnish, French, Indonesian,
Japanese and Mandarin. Collectively, the chapters develop insights
showing that reference is often fluid, dynamic, and indeterminate,
that referential indeterminacy is typically unproblematic for
participants, that shifts in referentiality tend to be tied to
specific social goals, and that reference and referentiality emerge
dialogically and interactionally.

Written In: English (eng)



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