Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, Margret Selting
Sari: Studies in Discourse and Grammar
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Dec-2010, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027288462)
Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2010, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027288455)
This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2008, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027289933)
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Nov-2007, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027291745)
This monograph contains the first systematic investigation of the Japanese dative subject construction across time and space. It demonstrates that, in order to capture what speakers/writers know about how to put an utterance or a clause together, i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-May-2006, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027293619)
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Dec-2005, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027293909)
This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2005, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027294173)
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six Europea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2005, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027294500)
This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2005, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027294722)
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and ne...Loe edasi...
John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf, William J. Ashby
Sari: Studies in Discourse and Grammar
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Sep-2003, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027296139)
Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by usi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Apr-2003, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027296726)
This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analys...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2003, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027296146)
This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the struct...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2002, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027296153)
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinatio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Dec-2001, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027298065)
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2001, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027297310)
Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the persp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-1999, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027275516)
On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of ‘Conversation Analysis’, this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing bo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-1997, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027275813)
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-1997, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027275820)
The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order syst...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027276117)
Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts.Interestingly, although the Japanese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-1996, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027276100)
This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, wh...Loe edasi...
