Pekarek-DoehlerHorlacher2013
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Pekarek-DoehlerHorlacher2013 |
| Author(s) | Simona Pekarek Doehler, Anne-Sylvie Horlacher |
| Title | The patching-together of pivot patterns in talk-in-interaction: On ‘double dislocations’ in French |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Pivot, Dislocation, On-line grammar, Assessment, Referential repair, French |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 54 |
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| Pages | 92-108 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.04.002 |
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Abstract
This paper investigates syntactic pivot patterns in French talk-in-interaction. In our data, pivot patterns recurrently amalgamate what has classically been called ‘left dislocation’ and ‘right dislocation’, as in the following: ça je vais les prendre les feuilles ‘these I will take them the papers’. Here, the pivotal element ( je vais les prendre ‘I will take them’) consists of a clause; the pre- and the post-pivot are each composed of an NP (ça and les feuilles, respectively) that is co-indexed by means of a pronoun (les ‘them’) within the pivot-clause. The paper investigates the interactional work that speakers accomplish through the [NP-clause-NP] pivot pattern. Results show that this pattern is routinized to different degrees for different interactional purposes: while speakers employ sedimented formats for proffering assessments, they configure the pivot pattern ad hoc for managing reference formulation. In the latter case, the pattern is patched together on-line, incrementally, following an emergent trajectory by means of which speakers respond to interactional contingencies on a moment-to-moment basis. We conclude that pivot patterns can be understood as processual products, adapted in the very course of their production to the contingencies of talk-in-interaction. As such, they are part of an emerging grammar for all practical proposes.
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