Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I. Syntactic resources in conversation
Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation
Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversation
Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation
Pivot constructions in spoken German
The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversation
Grammatical constructions in “real life practices”: WO-constructions in everyday German
Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children’s speech
Language as social action: A study of how senior citizens request assistance with practical tasks in the Swedish home help service
Part II. Lexico-semantic resources in conversation
The interactional generation of exaggerated versions in conversation
A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: ‘Concessive repair’
Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrasting
Form and function of ‘first verbs’ in talk-in-interaction
Notes on disaligning ‘yes but’ initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responses
Where grammar and interaction meet: The preference for matched polarity in responsive turns in Danish
Index
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