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Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
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Description for Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction
paperback. The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on, and introducing, the linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena. Num Pages: 602 pages. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
620
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107616035
SKU
V9781107616035
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About Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is Distinguished Professor (emerita) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published widely on prosody and grammar in interaction; in addition to numerous journal articles, she has authored, co-authored and co-edited many volumes on interactional linguistics, including Prosody in Conversation (with Margret Selting, Cambridge, 1996) and Studies in Interactional Linguistics (with Margret Selting, Cambridge, 2001). Margret Selting ... Read more
Reviews for Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction
'... 'Interactional Linguistics. Studying Language in Social Interaction' is a monumental and well-executed effort, as well as a timely one.' Karolina Zofia Grzech, Linguist List (new.linguistlist.org)