The Interactive Stance

NOTE EDITORE

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational - e.g. self-repair at the word level - to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening, middle game, and closing stages of conversation. it also offers a new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as quanitifcation and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges orthodox views of grammar by aruging that, unless we wish to excluse from analysis a large body of frequently occurrring words and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterizes types of talk in interaction.

SOMMARIO

1 - Interaction, grammar, and the behavioural sciences2 - From communitarian to interactive semantics3 - A semantic ontology for dialogue4 - Basic interaction in dialogue5 - A grammar for dialogue6 - Grounding and CRification7 - Non-sentential utterances in conversation8 - Extensions9 - An interaction-oriented theory of meaning

AUTORE

Jonathan Ginzburg has held appointments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and King's College, London. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7). He is the author of Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives (jointly with Ivan A. Sag) and has published more than 70 papers. He is one of the founders and currently editor-in-chief of Dialogue and Discourse, one of the Linguistic Society of America's ejournals.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198722991
• Dimensioni: 238 x 24.0 x 166 mm Ø 652 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 432