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New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research
Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 36] 2024
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E anche-prefaced other-expansions in multi-person interaction

On the interrelationship of syntax and mutual gaze

| KU Leuven | University of Neuchâtel
| KU Leuven | University of Heidelberg

This chapter investigates a practice used in Italian talk-in-interaction, whereby a speaker self-selects and expands the prior speaker’s talk with a grammatically dependent turn prefaced by e anche ‘and also’. The practice is used either to affiliate or disaffiliate with prior talk, and occurs in different gaze constellations: (1) a speaker may gaze at the prior speaker and subsequently initiate an e anche-prefaced other-expansion, thus receiving the prior speaker’s gaze; (2) speakers may establish mutual gaze before, or precisely at the moment at which the other-expansion is articulated. Such gaze behavior is sensitive to the action speakers accomplish. This chapter offers advances in Interactional Linguistics by examining a previously neglected grammatical resource (e anche) and concomitant gaze-behavior in multi-person interaction.

Keywords: (dis)affiliation, gaze constellation, multi-person interaction, participation, self-selection, other-expansions, Italian, grammar, interactional linguistics
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Prior research
    • 2.1E anche
    • 2.2Gaze in interaction
    • 2.3Other-expansions
  • 3.Data and methods
  • 4.Displays of (dis)affiliation
    • 4.1Affiliating with an e anche-prefaced other-expansion
    • 4.2Disaffiliating with an e anche-prefaced other-expansion
  • 5.Discussion and conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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