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Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 273] 2017
► pp. 315–325

What a difference forty years make

The view from linguistics

In great part thanks to Manny Schegloff’s contributions, CA has brought with it a fresh new way of thinking about language. Three roughly chronological stages can be identified in Schegloff’s linguistic development: (1) casual observation about small-scale linguistic phenomena, including silence, timing of sounds, syllables and words, non-lexical tokens, reference and deixis; (2) serious engagement with large-scale linguistic phenomena, including sentences, questions, speech acts, coherence, and prosody; (3) full-blown linguistic theorizing about, e.g., the natural habitat of language and grammars as positionally sensitive objects. The conclusion is that Manny Schegloff has contributed, if unwittingly, to a ‘new-age’, interactional revolution in linguistic thinking.
Keywords: silence, timing, non-lexical token, reference, deixis, sentence, question, speech act, coherence, prosody, language in its natural habitat, positionally sensitive grammar
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The beginning stage: Casual observation about small-scale linguistic phenomena
    • 2.1Silence
    • 2.2Timing in sounds, syllables, and words
    • 2.3Non-lexical tokens
    • 2.4Reference and deixis
  • 3.The middle stage: Serious engagement with large-scale linguistic phenomena
    • 3.1Sentences
    • 3.2Questions
    • 3.3Speech acts
    • 3.4Coherence
    • 3.5Prosody
  • 4.The latest stage: Full-blown linguistic theorizing
    • 4.1Language in its natural habitat
    • 4.2Positionally sensitive grammars
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 May 2017
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