Overview
Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation and ascription, sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language--
- | Author: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 21, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 620 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Language Arts & Disciplines
- | ISBN-10: 1107032806
- | ISBN-13: 9781107032804
