Since Interactional Linguistics (IL) is still a relatively recent approach to the study of language in talk-in-interaction, this introduction will first briefly outline how IL came about, what its current state is, and what it is characterized by. Then we will go into more detail on the new… read more
This paper presents some results of the projects on Turkish
German that we have carried out at the University of Potsdam, Germany, starting from
2004. Our empirical data from telephone conversations between young people of
Turkish-German background from Berlin show that prosody plays an… read more
This paper reports on some recent work on affectivity, or emotive involvement, in conversational storytelling. After presenting the approach, some case studies of the display and management of affectivity in storytelling in telephone and face-to-face conversations are presented. The analysis… read more
This paper gives an overview of the field of prosody in interaction, classifying research areas and questions as they have developed since the start of the field in the mid 1980s. The overview is organized by the following questions:1. What is prosody?2. Why should scholars and students concerned… read more