Units of Talk - Units of Action
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 2013
VI, 378 pages
978-90-272-7131-0 (ISBN)
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In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and the identification of new units of conduct in interaction. While some chapters make suggestions on how existing linguistic units can be adapted to suit the study of conversation, others present radically new perspectives on how language in interaction should be described, conceptualised and researched. The chapters present empirical investigations into different languages (Danish, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Swedish) in a variety of settings (private and institutional), considering both linguistic and embodied resources for talk. In addressing the fundamental question of units, the volume pushes at the boundaries of current debates and contributes original new insight into the nature of language in interaction.
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- Units of Talk - Units of Action
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- The question of units for language, action and interaction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conceptual framework
- 2.1 The 'natural habitat' of language
- 2.2 Abstract monologue vs. real-life interaction
- 3. The chapters
- References
- Units and/or Action Trajectories?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. An initial illustration
- 3. Two cases
- 3.1 Case 1: The Café de Yin Yang
- 3.2 Case 2: My favorite poster
- 4. An apparent counter to the focus on action in describing turn construction
- 5. Conclusions: Summing up the evidence
- References
- The dynamics of incrementation in utterance-building
- 1. Units in a dialogical and interactional grammar
- 2. On-line syntax
- 3. Units and elements
- 4. Interdependence of structures and processes
- 5. Units, decision points, continuation types
- 6. Early identifiability: External responsivity and internal projectivity
- 7. Interim summary: A process- and resource-based theory of languaging
- 8. Pivot utterances
- 9. Non-fulfillment of agreement constraints (projections)
- 10. Planning as local and partial
- 11. The status of grammatical constructions
- 12. Some concluding points
- References
- Appendix 1. Abbreviations in glossings and formulas (in alphabetical order)
- From "intonation units" to cesuring - an alternative approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk-in-interaction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Contra the unit approach
- 3. The cesura approach to the prosodic-phonetic structuring of talk
- 3.1 The concept of cesuras
- 3.2 Cesuras of various kinds
- 3.2.1 Candidate cesuras and cesural areas
- 3.2.2 Further "kinds" of cesuras
- 4. Investigating cesuras
- 4.1 Methodological preliminaries
- 4.2 Cesuras at work
- 4.2.1 Identifying cesuring parameters
- 4.2.2 Cesuras and the organization of speaker change
- 4.2.3 Cesuras at work beyond speaker change organization
- 5. Summary and conclusions
- References
- Appendix: Transcription conventions
- Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1 Subjects
- 2.2 Stimuli
- 2.3 Task
- 2.4 Analysis
- 3. Results
- 3.1 Fleiss's ?
- 3.2 Agreement percentage compared against random baseline
- 3.2.1 Percentage of chance agreement
- 3.3 Categorical vs. gradient perception of boundaries
- 4. Discussion
- 5. Conclusion
- 6. Appendix: Data
- References
- At the intersection of turn and sequence organization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The organization of type-conforming responses
- 2.1 Organizing responses: YNIs, Actions, Slots and TCUs
- 3. Unmarked type-conforming responses
- 4. Prosodic variations in the delivery of type-conforming tokens
- 4.1 Variations in prosody can project more talk
- 5. Variations in type-conforming tokens
- 6. Post-expansion of the response to interrogative slot
- 7. Concluding remarks
- References
- When 'yes' is not enough - as an answer to a yes/no question
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Data and method
- 3. Analysis: Environments in which 'yes' is not enough
- 3.1 Expansion-eliciting questions
- 3.2 Knowledge-discrepancy questions
- 3.3 Specification requests
- 3.3.1 Specification requests for assessments
- 3.3.2 Specification requests for tellings
- 4. Deviant cases
- 4.1 Expansion-eliciting questions that do not receive expansion
- 4.2 Knowledge discrepancy questions that do not receive expanded answers
- 4.3 Specification requests that are resisted
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- References
- Emerging units and emergent forms of participation within a unit in Japanese interaction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Shifting scales to a smaller level of granularity: Local organization of units
- 3. Units of analysis: The openness of interactional units and emergent forms of participation
- 4. A finer level of granularity: An illustrative example of emerging units inside a TCU
- 5. Expandability and transformability of units: When the recipient does not provide a relevant next action in the ITS
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Actions in talk
- 1.2 Phonological aspects of turn construction
- 1.3 Goals of this chapter
- 1.4 Offers
- 2. Conditionally-formatted offers as reason for the call
- 2.1 Opening the offer sequence
- 2.2 Phonetic properties of TCUs which describe the problem
- 2.3 The phonetic design of offers with if
- 2.4 A divergent case
- 3. Emergent offers
- 4. Sequentially disjunct offers
- 4.1 Do you want offers and disjunction
- 5. Conclusion: The properties of offers are contextually determined
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Building an instructional project
- 1. Introduction: Units and actions
- 2. Instructional interaction in music masterclasses
- 3. Data and transcription
- 4. Units of instruction: Two cases
- 4.1 Case 1
- 4.1.1 Moving into the engagement space
- 4.1.2 Receipt compliment
- 4.1.3 Local action directive - compliance - receipt
- 4.1.4 Instruction 'entry device'
- 4.1.5 Informing
- 4.1.6 Non-local action directive - acknowledgment
- 4.1.7 Establishing the place to start from
- 4.1.8 Retreat from the engagement space
- 4.1.9 Initiation of the re-performance
- 4.1.10 Adopting the pre-performance home position
- 4.1.11 Summary of instruction components for Extract (1)
- 4.2 Case 2
- 4.2.1 Summary of instruction components for Extract (2)
- 5. The local negotiation of action components and the multi-layered nature of actions: A third case
- 6. Summary and concluding observations
- References
- Language and the body in the construction of units in Mandarin face-to-face interaction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- 3. The body and the construction of units in interaction
- 4. The interplay of language and the body in the construction of units in interaction
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- Index
