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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Interactives -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definition -- 1.3 Properties -- 1.3.1 Definitional properties -- 1.3.2 Further features -- 1.3.3 Conclusion -- 1.4 Properties shared by the two domains of grammar -- 1.5 A classification of interactives -- 1.6 This volume -- 2 Argument structure -- 2.1 Meaning -- 2.1.1 Paraphrase -- 2.1.2 Expressive meaning -- 2.1.3 Interactives as depictions -- 2.1.4 Discussion -- 2.1.5 Conclusions -- 2.2 Identifying arguments -- 2.2.1 Introduction |
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2.2.2 The arguments -- 2.2.3 More on T arguments -- 2.2.4 More than one argument structure -- 2.2.5 Adjuncts -- 2.2.6 How to identify arguments -- 2.3 Discussion -- 2.4 Contrasting ways of discourse coding -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Types of interactives -- 3.1 Attention signals -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Working definition -- 3.1.3 Grammar -- 3.1.4 Discussion -- 3.1.5 The attention signal *hey -- 3.2 Directives -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Working definition -- 3.2.3 Grammar -- 3.2.4 Discussion -- 3.2.5 Canonical imperatives -- 3.2.6 Special domains of usage -- 3.3 Discourse markers |
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3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Working definition -- 3.3.3 Grammar -- 3.3.4 Fillers -- 3.3.5 A note on clicks as English discourse markers -- 3.3.6 Discourse markers in language contact -- 3.3.7 Grammaticalization -- 3.3.8 Discussion -- 3.4 Evaluatives -- 3.4.1 Introduction -- 3.4.2 Working definition -- 3.4.3 Grammar -- 3.4.4 Discussion -- 3.5 Ideophones -- 3.5.1 Introduction -- 3.5.2 Working definition -- 3.5.3 Grammar -- 3.5.4 Ideophones vs. interjections -- 3.5.5 Grammaticalization -- 3.5.6 A note on sound symbolism -- 3.5.7 Are ideophones interactives? |
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3.5.8 Ideophones as a potentially open-ended class -- 3.6 Interjections -- 3.6.1 Introduction -- 3.6.2 Working definition -- 3.6.3 Grammar -- 3.6.4 Sub-types -- 3.6.5 Discussion -- 3.7 Response elicitors -- 3.7.1 Introduction -- 3.7.2 Working definition -- 3.7.3 Grammar -- 3.7.4 Functional space -- 3.7.5 Other-initiated repair markers -- 3.8 Response signals -- 3.8.1 Introduction -- 3.8.2 Working definition -- 3.8.3 Grammar -- 3.8.4 Response signals expressed by clicks -- 3.8.5 Discussion -- 3.9 Social formulae -- 3.9.1 Introduction -- 3.9.2 Working definition -- 3.9.3 Grammar |
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3.9.4 Grammaticalization -- 3.9.5 The English formula please -- 3.9.6 How to use social formulae -- 3.10 Vocatives -- 3.10.1 Introduction -- 3.10.2 Working definition -- 3.10.3 Grammar -- 3.10.4 Sub-types -- 3.10.5 Typological variation -- 3.10.6 Special features of vocatives -- 3.11 Interaction with animals -- 3.11.1 Introduction -- 3.11.2 Working definition -- 3.11.3 Grammar -- 3.11.4 Usage and functions -- 3.11.5 Form -- 3.11.6 Voiceless sibilants in animal dispersal calls -- 3.11.7 Discussion -- 3.11.8 Conclusions -- 3.12 An overview -- 3.13 Conclusions -- 4 Development |
| Summary |
"The concern of the book is with identifying a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar'. The book rests on the analysis of grammatical descriptions of well over one hundred languages spoken in all major regions of the world. Ten types of interactives, that is, extra-clausal expressions of linguistic discourse, are distinguished, namely attention signals, directives, discourse markers, evaluatives, ideophones, interjections, response elicitors, response signals, social formulae, and vocatives. The main message of the book is that speakers dispose of two contrasting modes for structuring their discourses. One mode, represented by sentence grammar, organized in a propositional format and having an analytic organization, focuses on conceptual communication about the world. The second mode, represented by interactive grammar, has a holophrastic organization and a focus on social communication. Both kinds of grammar have an argument structure, but whereas that of sentence grammar is shaped by the propositional format of sentences, that of interactive grammar is shaped by the indexical nature of the situation of discourse.The distinction between two grammars exhibits, on the one hand, correlations with observations made in neurolinguistic studies on differential activity in the two hemispheres of the human brain. On the other hand, there are also noteworthy parallels to a similar distinction made in social psychology between two types or systems of reasoning and judgement. The conclusion drawn in the book is that the two grammars have complementary functions and both are needed for successful communication"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2023) |
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Sociolinguistics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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sociolinguistics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Sociolinguistics
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Linguistics.
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Language.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192699329 |
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0192699326 |
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9780191967740 |
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0191967742 |
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