Chapter 1
Theoretical background
Article outline
- I.What is disfluency? A psycholinguistic production model
- 1.1Disfluency as a deviation in speech from the ideal delivery
- 1.2The role of disfluencies in speech production
- 1.3Major disfluency types and classifications
- II.Fluency, disfluency, and hesitation: A terminological debate beyond terminological issues
- 2.1Definitions of L1 and L2 fluency
- 2.1.1Smoothness of speech versus language competence
- 2.1.2Fluency in Second Language Acquisition
- 2.2Approaches to L1 disfluency
- 2.2.1The two main views of disfluency
- 2.2.2Disfluency or hesitation?
- 2.2.3Beyond terminological issues: A functionally ambivalent approach to (dis)fluency
- 2.3Summary of the overlapping terms and my choice of terminology
- III.Beyond the psycholinguistic model: An interdisciplinary approach to inter-(dis)fluency
- 3.1Cognitive grammar and usage-based linguistics
- 3.1.1Key principles of Cognitive Grammar and usage-based linguistics
- 3.1.2Why study (dis)fluency in the framework of Cognitive Grammar?
- 3.1.3Cognitive and usage-based models of (dis)fluency: Towards a multi-dimensional model
- 3.2Interactional linguistics and conversation analysis
- 3.2.1Introduction to the interdisciplinary framework of Interactional Linguistics
- 3.2.2The study of conversational repairs in talk-in-interaction
- 3.2.3Contribution of the field to the study of inter-(dis)fluency
- 3.3Gesture studies and multimodal interaction
- 3.3.1Multimodality in the study of embodied interaction
- 3.3.2The different approaches to gesture
- 3.3.3Gesture classifications
- 3.3.4(Dis)fluency and gesture
- IV.Summary of the approaches adopted in this book
- V.Towards an integrated framework of inter-(dis)fluency
- 5.1Definition of inter-(dis)fluency
- 5.2Main theoretical assumptions
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