Interaction and Grammar [Hardcover]

This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction.These essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar. They take as their starting-point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly social interaction.These essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar. They take as their starting-point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly social interaction.Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure that is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very different way of approaching and understanding grammar: taking as their starting point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly social interaction, their essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar.Notes on the contributors; 1. Introduction Emanuel A. Schegloff, Elinor Ochs and Sandra A. Thompson; 2. Turn organization: one intersection of grammar and interaction Emanuel A. Schegloff; 3. Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns Cecilia E. Ford and Sandra A. Thompson; 4. Resources and repair: a cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair Barbara A. Fox, Makoto Hayashi and Robert Jasperson; 5. On the 'semi-permeable' character of grammatical units in conversation: conditional entry into the turn space of another speaker Gene H. Lerner; 6. On repeats and responses in Finnish conversations Marja-Leena Sorjonen; 7. 'When I come down I'm in the domain state': grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive actl“.