Grammar in Everyday Talk - Building Responsive Actions

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Responses in information-seeking sequences with 'question-word interrogatives'; 3. Responses in informing sequences; 4. Sequences with assessment responses; 5. Responses in request-for-action sequences; 6. Conclusions.

About the author

Sandra A. Thompson is Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Summary

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. Speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Barbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson, Sandra A. (University of California Thompson, Sandra A. Fox Thompson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107031029
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03102-9
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures