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    The Interactive Stance by Ginzburg, Jonathan;

    Meaning for Conversation

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 9 April 2015

    • ISBN 9780198722991
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages432 pages
    • Size 238x166x24 mm
    • Weight 652 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. It argues that the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterizes types of talk in interaction.

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    Long description:

    This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational - e.g. self-repair at the word level - to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The theory provides accounts of the opening, middle game, and closing stages of conversation. it also offers a new perspective on traditional semantic concerns such as quanitifcation and anaphora. The Interactive Stance challenges orthodox views of grammar by aruging that, unless we wish to excluse from analysis a large body of frequently occurrring words and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterizes types of talk in interaction.

    This book challenges the orthodox view by arguing that grammar should be construed as a system that is able to characterize different types of conversation. Drawing on extensive corpusstudies of the British National Corpus, the book presents a grammatically rooted theory of conversation, and convincingly demonstrates that grammar must link up directly with conversation.

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    Table of Contents:

    Interaction, grammar, and the behavioural sciences
    From communitarian to interactive semantics
    A semantic ontology for dialogue
    Basic interaction in dialogue
    A grammar for dialogue
    Grounding and CRification
    Non-sentential utterances in conversation
    Extensions
    An interaction-oriented theory of meaning
    Appendix
    References
    Index

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