Couper-Kuhlen2017

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Couper-Kuhlen2017
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Couper-Kuhlen2017
Author(s) Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Title What a difference forty years make: The view from linguistics
Editor(s) Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage
Tag(s) EMCA, deixis, coherence, speech act, prosody, question, positionally sensitive grammar, language in its natural habitat, timing, non-lexical token, silence, sentence, reference
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Year 2017
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Pages 317–324
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.273.16cou
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Howpublished
Book title Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff
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Abstract

In great part thanks to Manny Schegloff’s contributions, CA has brought with it a fresh new way of thinking about language. Three roughly chronological stages can be identified in Schegloff’s linguistic development: (1) casual observation about small-scale linguistic phenomena, including silence, timing of sounds, syllables and words, non-lexical tokens, reference and deixis; (2) serious engagement with large-scale linguistic phenomena, including sentences, questions, speech acts, coherence, and prosody; (3) full-blown linguistic theorizing about, e.g., the natural habitat of language and grammars as positionally sensitive objects. The conclusion is that Manny Schegloff has contributed, if unwittingly, to a ‘new-age’, interactional revolution in linguistic thinking.

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