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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics. For further
publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of
English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a
proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten
[Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a
significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory
both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to
deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight
of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new
knowledge about human languages both synchronically and
diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical
analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality
linguistic studies from all the central areas of general
linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which
address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the
development of linguistic theory.
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.
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing
on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this
introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of
interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic
practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action
formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the
book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size -
sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and 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. Featuring summary boxes and transcripts from
recordings of everyday conversation, this is an essential resource
for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on language in
social interaction.
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in
one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily
intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday
conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the
contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine
interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through
close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English,
German, and Italian conversations, the prosody emerges here as a
strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking
and floor-holding; in the negotiation of conversational activities
such as repair, assessments, announcements, reproaches, and news
receipts; and in the keying of the tone or modality of
interactional sequences.
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the
description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that
spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless
linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of
time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language
use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of
English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of
actual talk-in-interaction.
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in
one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily
intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday
conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the
contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine
interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through
close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English,
German, and Italian conversations, the prosody emerges here as a
strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking
and floor-holding; in the negotiation of conversational activities
such as repair, assessments, announcements, reproaches, and news
receipts; and in the keying of the tone or modality of
interactional sequences.
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing
on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this
introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of
interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic
practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action
formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the
book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size -
sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and 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. Featuring summary boxes and transcripts from
recordings of everyday conversation, this is an essential resource
for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on language in
social interaction.
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