Laury-etal2014
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Laury-etal2014 |
| Author(s) | Ritva Laury, Marja Etelämäki, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
| Title | Introduction (to special issue on: 'Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics') |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, IL, Grammar |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Pragmatics |
| Volume | 24 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 435-452 |
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| DOI | 10.1075/prag.24.3.01lau |
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Abstract
Since the publication of the seminal volume Interaction and Grammar edited by Ochs, Schegloff & Thompson in 1996, the study of grammar in interaction has established itself as a robust and vibrant research paradigm in the field of linguistics. In the meantime, however, new models of grammar have been introduced in linguistics and existing ones have been further developed, including Linear Unit Grammar (Sinclair & Mauranen 2006), Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 2008), Emergent Grammar (Hopper 1987, 1998, 2011), Construction Grammar (Croft 2001; Fried & Östman 2004; Goldberg 2006), Dialogic Grammar (Du Bois 2001; Linell 1998, 2004, 2006, 2009; Anward 2003) and others. Most recently, linguists have become interested in embodied interaction (Streeck, Goodwin & LeBaron 2011) and its implications for what might be called Multimodal Grammar. This special issue focuses on ways of studying grammar in interaction in the light of these new developments. It presents case studies of grammar in interaction, in a variety of different languages, exemplifying the application of a selection of these grammatical theories and thus furnishing a state-of-the-art view of grammar-in-interaction research today. The articles touch on some of the most central questions facing grammarians who study conversational talk, and conversation analysts who are interested in grammar: What is the role of language, and more specifically of grammar, in interaction? How do theories of grammar relate to the study of language-in-interaction? What does the study of interaction have to offer for theories of grammar? While we do not pretend to offer exhaustive answers to these questions, the papers in this special issue represent an effort to begin answering them.
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