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Grammar in Everyday Talk - Building Responsive Actions (Hardcover)
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Grammar in Everyday Talk - Building Responsive Actions (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
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Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book
surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in
ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their
responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or
shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different
intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses
to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to
informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are
they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring.
Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests
('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they
argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining
why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have
something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.
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