Jakob Steensig

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Jakob Steensig plays a role.

Title

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

Edited by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] 2025. vi, 441 pp. + index

Subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax

Articles (10) | Order by:

Steensig, Jakob 2025 Chapter 4. Grammatical formats of requests for immediate actions: Observations on Danish talk-in-interaction Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.), pp. 78–116 | Chapter

This chapter investigates three social action formats for requesting immediate action in Danish talk-in-interaction: embodied-only formats, phrasal formats, and modal verb formats. The analyses of the use of these formats are serve as a basis for discussing how entries in a comprehensive grammar… read more

Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen 2025 Chapter 14. Discussion: Where are we now and what are the next steps toward an Interactional Grammar? Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.), pp. 424–441 | Chapter

The chapters of this volume have taken important first steps toward the ultimate goal that all contributors to this volume share: The creation of comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction in specific languages, which are based on, and true to, how language is used in interaction. In this… read more

Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen 2025 Chapter 1. Grammar in action: Social interaction as a basis for a comprehensive grammar? Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter

In this chapter, we introduce the background for the studies in this volume. We review the treatment of grammar in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics and introduce the basic concepts in this analytical approach. We then discuss how interactional perspectives may relate to… read more

Sørensen, Søren Sandager and Jakob Steensig 2021 Chapter 6. Rising OKAY in third position in Danish talk-in-interaction OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 175–204 | Chapter

Earlier investigations claim that there are two OKAY types in Danish: okay1, with falling pitch, occurring mainly in third position, indicating sufficient understanding, and okay2, with rising pitch, indicating so-far understanding and that a projected trajectory may continue. We have examined… read more

Heinemann, Trine and Jakob Steensig 2018 Chapter 15. Justifying departures from progressivity: The Danish turn-initial particle altså Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages, Heritage, John and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 445–476 | Chapter

This chapter investigates the use of the Danish particle altså in turn-initial position. Turn-initial altså can be employed for prefacing a wide range of actions, including self- and other-initiated repair, questions, second stories and answers to both yes/no and wh-questions. We show that across… read more

Heinemann, Trine and Jakob Steensig 2017 Chapter 5. Three imperative action formats in Danish talk-in-interaction: The case of imperative + modal particles bare and lige Imperative Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action, Sorjonen, Marja-Leena, Liisa Raevaara and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 139–173 | Chapter

In Danish talk-in-interaction, imperative verbs often occur together with modal particles. This paper investigates three such combinations of imperatives and modal particles. We argue that the combinations are best understood as separate social action formats performing different actions in… read more

Steensig, Jakob and Trine Heinemann 2014 The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests Requesting in Social Interaction, Drew, Paul and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 145–170 | Article

Previous research has established that participants in interaction distinguish between those requests that can be satisfied immediately and those that are to be satisfied at some point in the future. Whereas immediate requests can be granted simply by the recipient carrying out the requested… read more

Steensig, Jakob and Trine Heinemann 2013 When ‘yes’ is not enough – as an answer to a yes/no question Units of Talk – Units of Action, Szczepek Reed, Beatrice and Geoffrey Raymond (eds.), pp. 207–242 | Article

This article investigates confirming answers to yes/no questions that consist of more than the type-conforming ‘yes’ token. The study is based on 160 cases of question-answer sequences with confirming answers, taken from a corpus of Danish interactions. The authors claim that certain actions, which… read more

Steensig, Jakob and Birte Asmuß 2005 Notes on disaligning ‘yes but’ initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responses Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, Hakulinen, Auli and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 349–373 | Article

Steensig, Jakob 2001 Notes on turn-construction methods in Danish and Turkish conversation Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Selting, Margret and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 259–286 | Article