Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction
Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 28] 2015. x, 275 pp.
Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne-Sylvie Horlacher plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2025 Chapter 11. An interactional grammar of insubordination: The case of French si ‘if’-clauses 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. 334–369 | Chapter
We take French si ‘if’-clauses as an exemplary case to reflect on how questions about the structures of a language can be fruitfully addressed by considering the conversational actions that speakers accomplish by means of these structures. We demonstrate that an interactional perspective has the… read more
2020 Chapter 3. Emergent complex noun phrases: On-line trajectories of ‘relativized’ NPs in French talk-in-interaction The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction, Ono, Tsuyoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 43–70 | Chapter
In this paper, we document the temporal and contingent nature of noun phrases (NPs). Focusing on relativized NPs, we show that they are produced as an interactional accomplishment, emerging from how participants adapt to each other’s verbal and non-verbal conduct. Based on 20 hours of French… read more
2014 ‘Pivotage’ in French talk-in-interaction: On the emergent nature of [clause-np-clause] pivots Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 593–622 | Article
French talk-in-interaction shows a recurrent patterning of utterances that can schematically be presented as [clause-NP-clause], as in ellei va s’effacer l’imagei ellei va s’effacer (‘iti is going to fade away the image,i iti is going to fade away)’, where i signals co-indexicality. In this… read more
2008 Topical and sequential backlinking in a French radio phone-in program: Turn shapes and sequential placements Pragmatics 18:3, pp. 381–406 | Article
Drawing on a corpus of French radio phone-in confidential chats, this paper deals with the resources that participants recurrently employ to get back to a prior course of action following age-inquiry sequences. It might be expected that the age sequence occurs predominantly during the initial,… read more