The Grammar of Interaction : Epistemicity, Information Management and Discourse in Language Use.

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Rodríguez Rosique, Susana [Browse]
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English
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1st ed.
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  • Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
  • ©2025.
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"This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language -through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges- reflects certain social and com-munity-based schemas; that is, how language originates within the space shared by the speaker and the addressee(s). The first part ("Grammar and Interaction") concerns how interaction may intervene in grammar; the second part ("The Grammar of Interaction") approaches both notions and linguistic structures which are anchored in interaction while revolving around epistemicity, evidentiality and modality. The third part ("Inter-action as a Model for Discourse") concerns how certain constructions emerge from interaction and are further used to model discourse. Finally, the fourth and last part of the book ("Interaction as a Driver for Change") focuses on how interaction may help to delimit linguistic categories"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • References
  • Part 1 Grammar and interaction
  • Impersonal and middle constructions in Spanish oral conflictive discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Se constructions
  • 2. A note on impersonal and passive constructions
  • 3. A proposal for the interpretation of impersonal se constructions
  • 4. A usage based study
  • 4.1 Journalistic writing
  • 4.2 Oral formal discourse
  • 4.3 CSCM
  • 4.4 Ameresco
  • 5. Impersonals and middles in conflictive discourse
  • 5.1 Couple sessions
  • 5.2 Couple sessions
  • 5.3 Couple sessions Madrid 15
  • 5.4 Couple sessions Malaga
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • Corpora
  • The Spanish Epistemic Dative Construction
  • 2. The Possessive Dative
  • 2.1 External possessor construction
  • 2.2 The Possessive
  • 2.3 The standard syntactic-semantic configuration
  • 2.4 Possession
  • 3. The Epistemic Possessive Dative
  • 3.1 External Possessor Construction sui generis
  • 3.2 Epistemic modality meets evidentiality
  • 3.3 Nominal versus sentential complementation
  • 3.4 Varying degrees of subjectivity
  • 3.4.1 Sensory registration
  • 3.4.2 Extrasensory perception
  • 3.4.3 Dialogic engagement
  • 3.4.4 Imaginary representation
  • 3.4.5 Overt stance taking
  • 4. Conclusion
  • List of abbreviations used
  • Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology
  • 1. Structure repairs
  • 2. Interweaving articulation and audition
  • 3. Morphonology
  • 3.1 The recovering of morphological information
  • 3.2 The preservation of morphological information
  • 3.3 Spotlighting morphological information
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • Part 2 The grammar of interaction
  • Evidence type and trustworthiness
  • 1. Assertion, evidence and veridical commitment
  • 2. Evidence and assertions
  • 2.1 Evidence-type and evidential categories.
  • 2.1.1 Evidentiality across languages
  • 2.1.2 Evidence-type in the literature on social media
  • 2.2 On the relation between evidentiality and assertivity
  • 2.2.1 Reported evidence
  • 2.2.2 Weaker assertion?
  • 3. Evidence and veridical commitment in social media
  • 3.1 Speech act categories
  • 3.2 Evidence type categories and annotation schema
  • 3.3 Results
  • 4. Evidence and trustworthiness evaluation
  • 4.1 Conceptions of trustworthiness
  • 4.2 Trustworthiness evaluation
  • Scenario 1
  • Scenario 2
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Quotatives and stance taking
  • 2. Quotatives
  • 3. Quotatives in young Mexican speakers
  • 3.1 Corpus and data
  • 3.2 New and old quotatives in young Mexican speakers
  • 4. Discourse specialization and stance taking
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Corpus data
  • Speech acts and interrogative particles
  • 2. Empirical landscape
  • 2.1 Previous literature
  • 2.2 Ambiguity
  • 2.3 Compatibility with oi?
  • 2.4 An uninformed addressee
  • 2.5 Predicted reactions
  • 2.6 Different sentence types as anchors
  • 2.7 Interim summary
  • 3. Towards a proposal
  • 3.1 Eh1? is not like oi?
  • 3.2 Eh1? as a request for public commitment
  • 3.3 Eh2? is not a confirmational tag
  • 4. What happens after a tag utterance
  • 4.1 Additional predictions
  • 4.2 Corpus study
  • 4.2.1 Methodology
  • 4.2.2 Results
  • 4.2.3 Discussion
  • 5. Extending the analysis to other speech acts
  • 6. General discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • From reference identification to discursive alignment
  • 2. Conversational interaction as a frame for new grammatical material
  • 3. From theory to practice
  • 4. Es eso in interaction
  • 4.1 Structural description of es eso
  • 4.1.1 On the verb ser 'to be' in Spanish. Beyond attribution.
  • 4.1.2 Discursive potential of the neuter demonstrative eso 'that'
  • 4.2 Es eso
  • Part 3 Interaction as a model for discourse
  • The grammar of interactives in !Xun (Namibia)
  • 2. Interactive grammar
  • 2.1 Interactives
  • 2.2 Argument structure of interactives
  • 3. The !Xun language
  • 3.1 The language
  • 3.2 Interactives
  • Attention signals
  • Directives
  • Discourse markers
  • Evaluatives
  • Ideophones
  • Interjections
  • Response elicitors
  • Response signals
  • Social formulae
  • Vocatives
  • 4. Fictional narrative texts
  • 4.1 Plot and protagonists
  • 4.2 Text organization
  • 4.3 Speaker-hearer interaction
  • 4.4 Attitudes of the speaker
  • 5. Discussion
  • Abbreviations
  • Appendix. List of headings of 20 !Xun folktales (König 2024)
  • Discourse relations and evidentiality
  • 2. Indirect evidentiality with así que and conque
  • 3. Relations of hierarchy and dependence in discourse
  • 4. Así que and conque in the construction of the discourse
  • How questions shape interactivity in spoken monologic discourse
  • 2. Theoretical background
  • 3. Hypotheses and data
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Question marking
  • 4.2 Answerhood
  • 4.3 Interlocution
  • 4.4 Discursive context
  • 4.5 Relation to subsequent context
  • 4.6 Relation to preceding context
  • 5. Analysis
  • 5.1 Interaction in TED talks
  • 5.2 Interlocution without interaction
  • 6. Discussion
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Part 4 Interaction as a driver for change
  • How Catalan expresses indifference
  • 2. Equality comparatives as expressions of indifference.
  • 3. Semantic network and pragmatic functions of indifference constructions
  • 4. Linguistic strategies for the intensification of indifference constructions
  • 5. Other indifference constructions with more limited dialectal reach
  • 6. A diversity of indifference constructions with the verb tenir 'to have'
  • 7. Conclusions
  • From subjunctives to imperatives
  • 2. The Romance subjunctive schema
  • 2.1 Non-Assertion Subschema [S [que Vsubj / ind]
  • 2.2 Modal Agreement Subschema [[Vtrigger ] / [Conjtrigger] [que Vsubj]]
  • 2.3 Protasis construction
  • 3. Subjunctives in independent main clauses?
  • 4. The Orphaned Subordinate Subschema: From insubordination to Neo-Imperatives
  • Honorific-Imperative Construction
  • Plural-Imperative Construction
  • Negative-Imperative Construction
  • Embedded-Imperative Construction
  • 5. Neo-Imperatives are no longer "Subjunctives"
  • Appendix. A comparison
  • Index.
ISBN
90-272-4435-9
OCLC
1553678838
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