Categorization in multilingual storytelling
Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Steven Talmy
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:3 (2019) vi, 163 pp.
Matthew T. Prior
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matthew T. Prior plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Emotion in Multilingual Interaction
Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2019 “I am an adult now”: Re-storying an ‘abuse’ narrative through categorization Categorization in multilingual storytelling, Prior, Matthew T. and Steven Talmy (eds.), pp. 423–451 | Article
This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present?… read more
2019 Categorization in multilingual storytelling: Introduction Categorization in multilingual storytelling, Prior, Matthew T. and Steven Talmy (eds.), pp. 329–336 | Introduction
2019 Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!”: Competing perspectives and language choice in an English-Japanese bilingual research interview Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews, Roulston, Kathryn (ed.), pp. 147–180 | Chapter
This study of a bilingual (Japanese-English) research interview, taken from a project investigating language practices in intermarried (Japanese/non-Japanese) families, examines the impact of interviewer and interviewee’s differing, and sometimes competing, perspectives and agendas. Drawing on… read more
2016 Formulating and scaling emotionality in L2 qualitative research interviews Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), pp. 203–236 | Article
From a corpus of ‘troubles-tellings’ (Jefferson 1988) generated in qualitative research interviews with L2 (second language) English-speaking adult immigrants in the US and Canada, this case study examines how formulation and intensification, supported by various linguistic and paralinguistic… read more
2016 Introduction: Contextualizing emotion in multilingual interaction: Theoretical and methodological perspectives Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article