DeStefani2020
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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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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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