Grammar and Dialogism: Sequential, Syntactic, and Prosodic Patterns between Emergence and Sedimentation

by Susanne Günthner (Editor), Wolfgang Imo (Editor), Jörg Bücker (Editor)

Overview

This volume aims at analyzing the relationship between the dialogical accomplishment of spoken talk-in-interaction on the one hand and entrenched patterns of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge (constructions, frames, and communicative genres) on the other. The contributions analyze linguistic patterns in different languages such as English, French, German, and Swedish. Methodologically, they take up the usage-based position that structural and functional aspects of language use need to be studied empirically and "bottom-up": Since grammatical structure arises as the entrenched result of recurrent language use, its study should start with the local organization of natural talk-in-interaction before moving on to more complex and abstract relationships between linguistic structure, linguistic meaning, and socio-cultural activity/event patterns. Furthermore, they argue that Dialogism provides a promising starting point for a usage-based approach to linguistic patterns as both emerging (i.e. constructed in response to the situational circumstances of talk-in-interaction) and emergent (i.e. constructed with regard to symbolic units as parts of socially and culturally shared knowledge).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110357967
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/13/2014
Series:	Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen , #61
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Susanne Günthner and Jörg Bücker, University of Münster, Germany; Wolfgang Imo, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction Susanne Günthner Wolfgang Imo Jörg Bücker 1

Section I A dialogic perspective on communicative practices

"Don't get me wrong": Recipient design by reactive and anticipatory uses of negation to constrain an action's interpretation Arnulf Deppermann 15

Dialogue and tradition: The open secret of language Jan Anward 53

Section II A dialogic perspective on clausal patterns

Evidence for a dialogical grammar: Reactive constructions in Swedish and German Per Linell Christine Mertzlufft 79

Forms of responsitivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen Barbara Fox Sandra Thompson 109

Elliptical structures as dialogical resources for the management of understanding Wolfgang Imo 139

Section III A dialogic perspective on subordinating constructions

The dynamics of dass-constructions in everyday German interactions - a dialogical perspective Susanne Günthner 179

Some observations on free and sentential relative clauses with "was" ('what') in German talk-in-interaction Jörg Bücker 207

Fishing for affiliation. The French double causal construction parte que comme from a dialogical linguistics perspective Stefan Pfänder Marie Skrovec 241

Section IV A dialogic perspective on particles and adverbs

This, that and the other: Prospection, retraction and obviation in dialogical grammar Paul Hopper 271

Reconstructing the point of reference for stand-alone deswegen Katharina König 301

Dialogism and the emergence of final particles: The case of and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten 335

Index 367