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Grammar and interaction : pivots in German conversation /
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs. Exclusively found in spo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs. Exclusively found in spoken German, pivots allow a speaker to extend an utterance beyond a possible completion point in a syntactically and prosodically unobtrusive way. Speakers utilize this basic property to promote context-specific actions: managing boundaries of speakership, bridging sequential and topical junctures, an. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289933 902728993X 1282104411 9781282104419 6612104414 9786612104411 |
| ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |