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Auer2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Auer2015
Author(s) Peter Auer
Title The temporality of language in interaction projection and latency
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Susanne Günthner
Tag(s) Interactional Linguistics, latency, projection
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2015
Language English
City Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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Journal
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Pages 27–56
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.27.01aue
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Howpublished
Book title Temporality in Interaction
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Abstract

This paper focuses on two basic principles in the dialogical emergence of self-contained linguistic units (‘sentences’) in interaction: projection and latency. Both are elementary for the synchronization of participants’ minds in what I call the online emergence of syntax. Projection enables speakers and recipients to predict – on the basis of what has been said so far – structural slots in the emer­gent syntactic gestalt. Latency, on the other hand, re­lates a new utterance to the structure of the preceding one(s). It links the struc­ture of an emergent syntactic gestalt to that of previous, already complete syn­tactic gestalts. Projection and latency can easily be observed in mundane con­versational phenomena that happen time and again in everyday interaction.

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