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The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interactionEdited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler
[Human Cognitive Processing 55] 2016
► pp. 3–22
Fictive interaction and the conversation frame
An overview
Esther Pascual | Zhejiang University, China
Sergeiy Sandler | Independent scholar, Israel
We deal with the notion of fictive interaction, namely the use of the conversation frame in order to structure cognition, discourse, and grammar (Pascual 2002, 2006b, 2014). We discuss how thought and the conceptualization of experience are partly modeled by the pattern of conversation, and present the kinds of fictive interaction on different levels: the discourse, the inter-sentential, the sentential, and intra-sentential level, down to the morpheme. We also provide a list of its defining characteristics (conversational features, non-actual and non-token interpretation, metonymy), and discuss what makes this ubiquitous phenomenon, widespread across languages, discourse genres, and sociolinguistic groups, worth studying, and what its theoretical implications are. The chapter closes with an overview of the structure and content of this volume.
Keywords: metonymy, intersubjectivity, non-token reading, fictivity, conversationalization
Published online: 01 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.01pas
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.01pas
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