On assessing situations and events in conversation

`Extraposition' and Its Relatives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5966413
AutoresElizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth Couper‐kuhlen (0000-0003-2030-6018, University of Potsdam, autor de correspondencia), Scott A Thompson (0000-0002-7794-2042, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia), Sandra A Thompson
Año2008
Volumen10
Número4
Páginas443-467
Fecha de publicación2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445608091882
OpenAlexW2058473835
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas54

Recent research provides strong evidence that the syntacticization of recurrent multi-actional and interactional patterns for accomplishing social actions is quite a general phenomenon. Drawing on a body of audio and video recordings, we consider three pervasive conversational patterns whereby English speakers carry out the assessing of an event or situation, and the interactional contingencies which give rise to these patterns. We propose that one of these patterns (known as `extraposition') can be revealingly understood as having syntacticized to a grammatical and prosodically unified construction as an amalgamation of the other two patterns, which are interactional routines. We suggest that the `extraposition' construction provides a particularly elegant instance of how grammar emerges from the recurrent interactional practices which make up the fabric of our daily lives

Cognitive psychology · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Epistemology · Grammar · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology