Research Catalog

Title

Interaction and grammar / edited by Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Sandra A. Thompson.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Ochs, Elinor.
• Schegloff, Emanuel A.
• Thompson, Sandra A.

Description

xii, 468 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure which is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very different way of approaching and understanding grammar, taking it as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and emphasizing its role in the use of language in everyday interaction and cognition. Taking as their starting-point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly with social interaction, their essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar.

Series Statement

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 13

Uniform Title

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 13.

Subject

• Sociolinguistics
• Social interaction
• Conversation analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Emanuel A. Schegloff, Elinor Ochs, and Sandra A. Thompson -- Turn organization : one intersection of grammar and interaction / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Interactional units in conversation : syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resourses for the management of turns / Cecilia E. Ford and Sandra A. Thompson -- Resources and repair : a cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair / Barbara A. Fox, Makoto Hayashi, and Robert Jasperson -- On the "semi-permeable" character of grammatical units in conversation : conditional entry into the turn space of another speaker / Gene H. Lerner -- On repeats and responses in Finnish conversations / Marja-Leena Sorjonen -- "When I come down I'm in the domain state" : grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive activity of physicists / Elinor Ochs, Patrick Gonzales, and Sally Jacoby -- Transparent vision / Charles Goodwin -- Conversational signifying : grammar and indirectness among African American women / Marcyliena Morgan -- Creating evidence : making sense of written words in Bosavi / Bambi B. Schieffelin.

ISBN

• 0521552257
• 052155828X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95024891^

OCLC

• 32922475
• SCSB-10233736

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Harvard Library