Hopper2015

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Hopper2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Hopper2015
Author(s) Paul J. Hopper
Title Temporality and the emergence of a construction: a discourse approach to sluicing
Editor(s) Arnulf Deppermann, Susanne Günthner
Tag(s) Interactional Linguistics, sluice, temporality, turn construction
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2015
Language English
City Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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Pages 123–146
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DOI 10.1075/slsi.27.04hop
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Howpublished
Book title Temporality in Interaction
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Abstract

A sluice (Ross 1969) is a wh-word that, in the standard syntactic view, refers to ellipted material in an antecedent clause. In the present study, based on conversational data, I view sluices from a temporal and interactional perspective in which grammatical constructions are seen as emergent in time rather than as fixed stable entities. I analyze the different timings of sluices in terms of their projective, retractive, preemptive and other functions. Pre-sluices are forward-oriented and work to block potential questions that might distract from a current or upcoming theme. Post-sluices are “retractions” (cf. Auer 2009) that close off a completed turn or a sequence of turns.

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