Grammar in Action
Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction
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Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates how it is possible to write comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics, which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, and they make concrete proposals about how the phenomena may be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target groups, and how a web-based grammar may be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction.
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] Expected July 2025. vi, 441 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Grammar in action: Social interaction as a basis for a comprehensive grammar?Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen | pp. 1–24
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Section 1. From Action to Grammar
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Chapter 2. On granularity in grammar and actionBarbara A. Fox and Chase Wesley Raymond | pp. 26–46
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Chapter 3. ‘Idea-Suggestions’ in an interactional grammar: Sequential organization and grammatical formatsElizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 47–77
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Chapter 4. Grammatical formats of requests for immediate actions: Observations on Danish talk-in-interactionJakob Steensig | pp. 78–116
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Chapter 5. Structurally ‘incomplete’ social action formats in the grammar of talk-in-interaction? The case of deontic infinitives in spoken GermanAlexandra Gubina | pp. 117–156
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Chapter 6. Responses to specifying WH-questions, and their place in a comprehensive grammar of interactional DanishMaria Jørgensen | pp. 157–193
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Chapter 7. Parenthesis in storytelling in Danish talk-in-interactionNicholas Mikkelsen | pp. 194–226
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Section 2. From Grammar to Action
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Chapter 8. The use of past tense formats in German talk-in-interactionSophia Fiedler | pp. 228–265
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Chapter 9. Second-person singular imperatives in Finnish everyday conversations: Multifunctionality and routinization of grammatical formatsKarita Suomalainen | pp. 266–302
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Chapter 10. Copula variation in Danish and the intertwined nature of grammarSøren Sandager Sørensen | pp. 303–333
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Chapter 11. An interactional grammar of insubordination: The case of French si ‘if’-clausesSimona Pekarek Doehler and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher | pp. 334–369
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Chapter 12. Action formation, projection, and participation framework: Pseudoclefts in Swedish talk-in-interactionSofie Henricson and Jan Lindström | pp. 368–393
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Chapter 13. Other-extensions in Italian: A case of and for Collaborative GrammarVirginia Calabria | pp. 395–423
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Chapter 14. Discussion: Where are we now and what are the next steps toward an Interactional Grammar?Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen | pp. 424–441
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax