DeStefani2020

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DeStefani2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key DeStefani2020
Author(s) Elwys De Stefani
Title Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation: Turn-taking, turn-maintaining and turn-yielding
Editor(s) Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström, Leelo Keevallik
Tag(s) EMCA, Italian, Projection, Turn position, Syntax, Grammar
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2020
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 25–54
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.32.02ste
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Howpublished
Book title Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal Patterns and the Organization of Action
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Abstract

This chapter examines nel senso (che) ‘in the sense (that)’ in present-day conversational Italian. Speakers can use the resource to start a turn, to extend a turn-in-progress, or to yield a turn to a next speaker. In TCU-beginnings, it is describable as a projector construction, allowing speakers to display continuation of their turn (with a new clause). When extending a turn with nel senso (che), speakers display orientation towards a potential problem of understanding which they prevent by elaborating on their prior talk. In turn- and TCU-initial positions, both nel senso che and nel senso are observed; in turn-final positions only the latter format occurs. The chapter analyzes the syntactic, prosodic, embodied, and praxeological corollaries of the resource.

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