ISBN:
9789027271310
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in Language and Social Interaction v.25
Parallel Title:
Units of talk - units of action
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Oral communication
;
Social interaction
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Speech acts (Linguistics)
;
Electronic books
;
Linguistische Einheit
;
Pragmatik
Abstract:
This article explores the interrelatedness between language and the body in the delimitation of multi-TCU turns in Mandarin face-to-face interaction. Based on video recordings of Mandarin conversation, this study describes a recurrent pattern of body movements: forward lean and return of the body. This type of body movements is relevant to the initiation and possible completion of multi-TCU turns and actions implemented through them. People deploy multiple resources, including language and the body, to indicate and recognize the boundaries of larger projects in interaction. The body may converge or diverge with other resources in the projection of their possible completion. It also provides participants with a resource to deal with contingencies in the construction of extended turns in interaction.
Abstract:
Units of Talk - Units of Action -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The question of units for language, action and interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 2.1 The 'natural habitat' of language -- 2.2 Abstract monologue vs. real-life interaction -- 3. The chapters -- References -- Units and/or Action Trajectories? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An initial illustration -- 3. Two cases -- 3.1 Case 1: The Café de Yin Yang -- 3.2 Case 2: My favorite poster -- 4. An apparent counter to the focus on action in describing turn construction -- 5. Conclusions: Summing up the evidence -- References -- The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building -- 1. Units in a dialogical and interactional grammar -- 2. On-line syntax -- 3. Units and elements -- 4. Interdependence of structures and processes -- 5. Units, decision points, continuation types -- 6. Early identifiability: External responsivity and internal projectivity -- 7. Interim summary: A process- and resource-based theory of languaging -- 8. Pivot utterances -- 9. Non-fulfillment of agreement constraints (projections) -- 10. Planning as local and partial -- 11. The status of grammatical constructions -- 12. Some concluding points -- References -- Appendix 1. Abbreviations in glossings and formulas (in alphabetical order) -- From "intonation units" to cesuring - an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contra the unit approach -- 3. The cesura approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk -- 3.1 The concept of cesuras -- 3.2 Cesuras of various kinds -- 3.2.1 Candidate cesuras and cesural areas -- 3.2.2 Further "kinds" of cesuras -- 4. Investigating cesuras -- 4.1 Methodological preliminaries -- 4.2 Cesuras at work -- 4.2.1 Identifying cesuring parameters.
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