Pfander2014

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Pfander2014
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Pfander2014
Author(s) Stefan Pfänder, Marie Skrovec
Title Fishing for affiliation: the French double causal construction ‘parce que comme’ from a dialogical linguistics perspective
Editor(s) Susanne Günther, Wolfgang Imo, Jörg Bücker
Tag(s) French, Affiliation, Grammar, Interactional Linguistics, EMCA
Publisher De Gruyter Mouton
Year 2014
Language English
City Berlin
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Pages 241–268
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DOI 10.1515/9783110358612.241
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Series Linguistik — Impulse & Tendenzen
Howpublished
Book title Grammar and Dialogism: Sequential, Syntactic, and Prosodic Patterns between Emergence and Sedimentation
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Abstract

This contribution to the volume examines data demonstrating the presence of a double causal construction conjunction parce que comme ‘because since’, in French interactional contexts. The construction is analysed here as an on-line resource (Auer 2009, Auer/Pfänder 2011) for dialogue. This is shown to occur when participants wish to not only account for a prior action, but also to ensure that their interlocutors can fully understand the reason for and therefore better deal with the claim. That is, when they want others to display affliliation with their activity. In this case affliliation refers to a whole-hearted and overt comprehension and acceptance of a request or statement related to a prior request. In this sense, the double causal construction contributes to “fishing” for such affiliation.

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