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The Interactive Stance (Hardcover, New)
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The Interactive Stance (Hardcover, New)
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This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a
precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by
data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from
the micro-conversational -- e.g. self-repair at the word level --
to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the
characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on
extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on
evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of
language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening,
middle game, and closing stages of conversation. It also offers a
new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as
quantification and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges
orthodox views of grammar by arguing that, unless we wish to
exclude from analysis a large body of frequently occurring words
and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system
that characterizes types of talk in interaction.
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