The Contextualization of Language
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 1992
XVI, 402 pages
978-90-272-8592-8 (ISBN)
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This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant to the local interpretation of their verbal and nonverbal activities. On an empirical level, the volume contains exemplary analyses that show how participants employ 'contextualization cues' of prosodic (rhythm, intonation, tempo, etc.) or nonverbal (gaze, gesture, etc.) nature in order to 'achieve context'.The volume is also an appraisal of the theory of contextualization developed by John Gumperz. In their contributions, researchers from various schools of research, such as conversation analysis, micro-ethnography, phonetics/phonology and metapragmatics, relate their work to this theory.
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Content
- THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF LANGUAGE
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction: John Gumperz' Approach to Contextualization
- 1. What is contextualization?
- 2. An example: Contextualization at work
- 3. Contextualization in context
- 4. Processes of contextualization: Some suggestions for typologies
- 5. Some properties of contextualization cues
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Contextualization Revisited
- References
- The Indeterminacy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough?
- 'Contextualization' narrow and broad
- So where does 'context' begin and end?
- The qualities or characteristics of functional context
- Defeasibility of contextualization
- Minimaximization and interactional textualization
- Contextualization cues" in perspective of 'contextualization'
- References
- Context, Activity and Participation
- 1. The interactive organization of activities
- 2. Multiple contexts
- 2.1 Recontextualizing a gesture
- 2.3 Competing alignment claims
- 2.4 Multiple interpretive frameworks
- Disattending a heckler
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background: Eliciting co-participation within an utterance through head movement
- 3. Gesture: Encouraging co-participation within an utterance
- 4. Multiple action gestures: Implicating alternative sequential trajectories
- 5. Discussion: Sequential organisation and the 'local production of context.
- 6. Postscript: Institutional role and participation status. A reply to Hinnenkamp
- References
- Comments on: Christian Heath: Gesture's Discreet Tasks. Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and the Contextualisation of Language
- Reference
- Previews: Gestures at the Transition Place
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The placement of gestures
- 3. Transition place
- 4. Data and transcription
- 5. The [a]-face: A borderline case
- 6. "Palm up": Pre-telling, pre-monitoring a list
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- The Return Gesture: Some Remarks on Context, Inference, and Iconic Gesture
- 1. The problem of contextualization of iconic gestures
- 2. Communicative relevance and interactional non-relevance of the iconic gesture
- 3. Return gesture and visual orientation
- 4. The return gesture as a mode of interaction
- 5. The relation of affiliation
- References
- Gendered Contexts
- Play and children'sgames as a research site
- Studying play as breakthrough into performance
- Achieving the narrative voice
- Narrative scripts: how the action goes on
- Game voices - characterization of different voices
- The use of the formula
- The game performance - little girls into mothers
- The moral voice of motherhood
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix 1: Progression of events
- Appendix 2: Lindy and Sophie playing Mummies and Babies
- Theatrical Moments: On Contextualizing Funny and Dramatic Moods in the Course of Telling a Story in Conversation
- A note on transcription conventions
- A gossip among girlfriends
- Contextualization of places relevant for laughter
- Contextualization of 'moods'
- Contextualizing 'fun'
- Contextualizing 'dramatic mood '
- Contrasting rhythms
- Contextualizing narrative progress
- Conclusion
- References
- Comments on: Klaus Müller: Theatrical Moments
- References
- Intonation as a Contextualization Devices: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation
- 1 Introduction
- 2. Premisses and descriptive categories
- 3. A first example
- 4. Asecond example
- 4.1. The internal structure of the story
- 4.2. The embedding of the story into the surrounding conversation
- 4.3. Some other relations within the sequence
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Comments on: Margret Selting: Intonation as a Contextualization Device
- References
- Continuing and Restarting
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phonetics, turn-holding and projection
- 3. Continuations and completions
- 4. Pitch and loudness as resources for doing continuation
- 5. Conclusions and further possibilities
- References
- Contextualizing Relevance: On Some Forms and Functions of Speech Rate Changes in Everyday Conversation
- 0. Introduction
- 1. The perception of speech rate
- 1.1. Number of sounds, words or syllables per unit of time
- 1.2. Beats or accented syllables per unit of time
- 1.3. Number, duration, and placement of pauses
- 1.4 Fundamental frequency
- 1.5. Résumé
- 2. Contextualizing functions
- 2. 1. Onomatopoetic function
- 2.2. Self-repair
- 2.3. Parenthesis and side comments
- 2.4. Afterthoughts and summaries as turn-exit or topic-exit devices
- 2.5. Degrees of relevance
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix: Transcription Conventions
- Contextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactive Repair
- Background
- Speech rhythm
- Notation conventions
- An illustration of speech rhythm and its notation
- 'Doing' interactive repair
- The prosodic contextualization of repair: Tempo
- Theprosodic contextualization of repair: Rhythm
- The first move
- The second move
- The third move
- The repair sequence as a whole
- References
- They Know All the Lines: Rhythmic Organization and Contextualization in a Conversational Listing Routine
- Introduction
- The case of a family dinner conversation
- Syntax as a production resource
- Timing and prosody as discourse production resources
- Timing of eating behavior as a production resource
- Conclusion: They know all the lines
- References
- Index
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