Spoken Language Pragmatics
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Spoken Language Pragmatics

Analysis of Form-Function Relations

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Spoken Language Pragmatics

Analysis of Form-Function Relations

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This volume provides a detailed analysis of the relationships between form and function in spontaneous spoken language. The contributors analyse English, German and Spanish data to present a multilingual perspective on the complexities facing speakers in a variety of contexts. Through an examination of the language of everyday conversation, interviews, consultations, task-based dialogues, football commentaries, radio-play productions and intercultural conversations, the book demonstrates the effect of informational, discourse-external and personal factors on form and shows how speakers position themselves in relation to their discourse, orchestrate different tasks, move between different 'voices', and negotiate meaning. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the multiple layers of spontaneous spoken language. Spoken Language Pragmatics presents research that will be of interest to academics working in linguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2007
ISBN
9781441109262
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistic Semantics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Demonstrative and personal pronouns in formal and informal conversations
  6. 2 Grammatical past time reference in spontaneously produced language
  7. 3 The structure and function of wenn-clauses and their role in problem-solving discourse
  8. 4 The relationship between deixis and modality
  9. 5 Modal particles and emotion
  10. 6 Speech rate, time pressure and emotion in English and German football commentary
  11. 7 Multivoicedness and artistic reformulations in directingconversations
  12. 8 Intercultural positioning: tandem conversations about word meaning
  13. Index