Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction (Studies in Language and Social Interaction) - Hardcover

9789027220080: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction (Studies in Language and Social Interaction)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027220085 ISBN 13: 9789027220080

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025

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.

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