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The Contextualization of Language.

This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Auer, Peter
Otros Autores: Di Luzio, Aldo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: John Gumperz' Approach to Contextualization; Contextualization Revisited; The Indeterminacy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough?; Context, Activity and Participation; Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language; Comments on: Christian Heath: Gesture's Discreet Tasks. Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and the Contextualisation of Language.
  • The Return Gesture: Some Remarks on Context, Inference, and Iconic GestureGendered Contexts; Theatrical Moments: On Contextualizing Funny and Dramatic Moods in the Course of Telling a Story in Conversation; Comments on: Klaus Müller: Theatrical Moments; Intonation as a Contextualization Devices: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation; Comments on: Margret Selting: Intonation as a Contextualization Device; Continuing and Restarting.
  • Contextualizing Relevance: On Some Forms and Functions of Speech Rate Changes in Everyday ConversationContextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactive Repair; They Know All the Lines: Rhythmic Organization and Contextualization in a Conversational Listing Routine; Index; The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.