Elizabeth Couper‐kuhlen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3591933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Couper‐kuhlen |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Couper‐kuhlen |
| FIRMA | KUHLEN E C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2030-6018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Should we indict action categorization
Although, on first take, the articles in this special issue may look like an indictment of action categorization, a closer examination of the evidence suggests that what is called for is a renewed understanding of action categorization. The keys to this renewed understanding include treating action names as arbitrary labels for identifiable patterns of accountable behavior, recognizing the gradient nature of social behavior in interaction, and ac…
Quote – unquote? the role of prosody in the contextualization of reported speech sequences
This paper investigates how speakers of English can use the prosodic design of utterances to identity parts of these utterances as instances of reported speech. We will show that prosodic changes can function like quotation marks in written texts by clearly delimiting left and right hand boundaries of the reported sequence. In the majority of cases, however, prosodic changes do not coincide with the boundaries of reported speech but occur nearby,…
Incrementing’ in conversation. A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese
This cross-linguistic study focuses on ways in which conversationalists speak beyond a point of possible turn completion in conversation, specifically on turn extensions which are grammatically dependent, backward-looking and extend the prior action. It argues that further distinctions can be made in terms of whether the extension is prosodically integrated with the prior unit, its host, ( Non-add-on ) or not, and in terms of whether it repairs s…
Intonation and clause combining in discourse
The thrust of much of this researchimplicit in the term 'clause combining' itselfhas been to cast doubt upon the traditional dichotomy of coordination vs. subordination (Irhmann 1988; also Haiman & Thompson 1984). New models have been proposed for describing text-semantic, or rhetorical, links between clauses at the level of discourse rather than at the level of sentence And empirical studies have begun to appear showing what lexical and grammati…
Increments in cross-linguistic perspective
A new area of research called Interactional Linguistics highlights linguistic structure in relation to naturally occurring interaction and is characterized by its cross-linguistic orientation. As a contribution to this new area of research, the present volume is a collection of papers with a cross-linguistic focus; they examine what is often called an ‘increment’, a grammatical extension of the already completed unit. In this paper, we briefly di…
Can temporal clauses be insubordinate
In this paper we aim to determine whether temporal clauses can be shown to be insubordinate in everyday American English interaction. In order to investigate grammatical insubordination in conversation, we operationalize the notion of ‘insubordination’ as a specific practice for designing a turn-at-talk and implementing a social action. That is, we treat as ‘insubordinate’ a clause with a grammatically subordinate form that (a) is freestanding, t…
OH + Okay in informing sequences
This study explores fuzzy boundaries, or weak cesuras, in the particle combination OH + OKAY as used in informing sequences in ordinary English talk-in-interaction. The focus is on the third position in such sequences, where OH + OKAY responds to information that has been solicited by the speaker in a prior turn. Based on a collection of approximately 45 instances of OH + OKAY in recent American English telephone and face-to-face interactions, th…
Language over time
This paper demonstrates how the tools of Interactional Linguistics can be applied to the study of change in language use. It examines the particle OKAY as used in everyday American English interaction at two different points in time, the 1960s and the 1990s/early 2000s. The focus is on the remarkable increase of OKAY as a response in epistemically driven sequences. Three uses of epistemic OKAY are identified in the newer data, one of which is una…
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation
In this article we study the forms and functions of whistling in social interaction. Our analysis identifies two basic forms of conversational whistling, (a) melodic whistling, when participants whistle the tune of, e.g., a familiar song; and (b) nonmelodic whistling. The focus in this article lies on nonmelodic whistles, which come in two contours linked to specific actions: (a) the tonal whistle deployed for summoning (e.g., a domestic animal b…
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English
This study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repai…
Turn-sharing revisited
Finding a Place for Body Movement in Grammar
Keevallik’s impressive survey of how body movements affect grammatical choices is a timely reminder that language use in social interaction does not occur in a vacuum. Yet although body movements can be intercalated in complex ways with the grammatical structure of utterances, I argue here that they are not part of grammar in a strict sense of the word. In “composite” utterances they fill slots that grammatical structures create, without being gr…
Interactional Linguistics
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size…
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that 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'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), respon…
What does grammar tell us about action
Using cases of misalignment and realignment in the unfolding of interactional sequences in which future actions and events are being negotiated in everyday English conversation, this paper demonstrates that participants distinguish between the initiating actions of Proposal*, Offer*, Request*, and Suggestion*, if these labels are understood as technical terms for distinct constellations of answers to the questions (i) who will carry out the futur…
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives
Requesting in Social Interaction
There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction – particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest, cutting-edge research into requesting by leading international practitioners of Conversation Analysis. The studies trace a line of conceptual development fr…
Requesting in social interaction
Insisting on ‘my side
Exploring Affiliation in the Reception of Conversational Complaint Stories
This chapter investigates the linguistic resources deployed by recipients of conversational complaint stories to show affiliation (or not) with the teller, affiliation being understood as the display of support and endorsement for a conveyed affective stance, here typically anger and/or indignation. Among the verbal means for affiliative reception are claims of understanding, congruent negative assessments and by-proxy justifications, while factu…
On affectivity and preference in responses to rejection
This paper explores the conversation-analytic notion of preference as it applies to the set of affect displays made relevant by the unequivocal rejection of a request or proposal in everyday English conversation. Findings so far indicate that different affect displays on rejection finalizers are realized
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
Commentary on Stivers and Rossano
JEFF: . . What are you guys doing. Talking or something? JILL: Just talking, JEFF: @@ (H) J=u=st talking? JILL
Forschungsprogramm "Interaktionale Linguistik"
In contrast to its country of origin, ethnomethodological conversation analysis has found followers not only among sociologists but also among linguists in many European countries. Aside from the continuing investigation of classic conversation analytic questions, research initiatives have recently begun to emerge which endeavor to combine more strictly linguistic interests with conversation analytic methodology. This kind of research has come to…
Prosody in Conversation
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
Interactional prosody
The present study demonstrates how prosody - specifically, onset level - is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a relevant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to radio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position…
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical formats which speakers orient to in projecting what actions are being done by others' utterances and in acting on these projections. Yet the way in which the clause affords grammatical projectability varies significantly from language to language. In fact, it depend…
On assessing situations and events in conversation
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 o…
Language over time
This paper demonstrates how the tools of Interactional Linguistics can be applied to the study of change in language use. It examines the particle OKAY as used in everyday American English interaction at two different points in time, the 1960s and the 1990s/early 2000s. The focus is on the remarkable increase of OKAY as a response in epistemically driven sequences. Three uses of epistemic OKAY are identified in the newer data, one of which is una…
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation
In this article we study the forms and functions of whistling in social interaction. Our analysis identifies two basic forms of conversational whistling, (a) melodic whistling, when participants whistle the tune of, e.g., a familiar song; and (b) nonmelodic whistling. The focus in this article lies on nonmelodic whistles, which come in two contours linked to specific actions: (a) the tonal whistle deployed for summoning (e.g., a domestic animal b…
Turn-sharing revisited
Nominated actions and their targeted agents in Finnish conversational directives
Commentary on Stivers and Rossano
JEFF: . . What are you guys doing. Talking or something? JILL: Just talking, JEFF: @@ (H) J=u=st talking? JILL
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Finding a Place for Body Movement in Grammar
Keevallik’s impressive survey of how body movements affect grammatical choices is a timely reminder that language use in social interaction does not occur in a vacuum. Yet although body movements can be intercalated in complex ways with the grammatical structure of utterances, I argue here that they are not part of grammar in a strict sense of the word. In “composite” utterances they fill slots that grammatical structures create, without being gr…
Insisting on ‘my side
The prosody of other-repetition in British and North American English
This study explores the link between prosody and other-repetition in a moderately large collection from everyday English talk-in-interaction (n = 200). British English and North American English cases were analysed separately in order to track possible varietal differences. Of initial interest was the question whether focal pitch accents might disambiguate among other-repetition actions, both those related to repair and those that go beyond repai…
Contextualizing Discourse
English Speech Rhythm
This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a small-scale study of an English conversational extract, the gestalt-like rhythmic structures which isochrony creates are shown to have a hierarchical organiza…
Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction
Introduction If prosody is understood to comprise the ‘musical’ attributes of speech – auditory effects such as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause – then it is surely no exaggeration to state that a large part of this field has been left untilled by modern structural linguistics. Only a few scholars at the most have considered prosody, intonation in particular, worthy of their attention. Moreover, when they have done so, it has been primar…
Prosody in Conversation
The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that the study of prosody must begin with genuine interactional rather than pre fabricated laboratory data. Through close empirical analysis of recorded material from genuine English, Ge…
The prosody of repetition
The research question which this chapter addresses is motivated by the growing awareness that speakers who are engaged in verbal interaction with one another employ adaptive strategies which entail 'matching' their speech behaviour in one way or another to that of their interlocutor. On the verbal level this matching may involve repetition of words, expressions or whole utterances, e.g. to contextualize affiliation or support (Tannen 1987, 1989).…
Language in Time
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of …
Concessive patterns in conversation
Concessive patterns in conversation
Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast
In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles deal with the potential of a single structure for both turn and sequence construction, revealing a play-off between planned and occasioned syntax with po…
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Interactional prosody
The present study demonstrates how prosody - specifically, onset level - is deployed in situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch level in intonational contours is a relevant parameter, but also that, under certain conditions, initial pitch level may provide a situationally specific contextualization cue. In calls to radio phone-in programs, for instance, there is a so-called anchor position…
Sound Patterns in Interaction
This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adult…
The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
This article draws on work at the interface of grammar and interaction to argue that the clause is a locus of interaction, in the sense that it is one of the most frequent grammatical formats which speakers orient to in projecting what actions are being done by others' utterances and in acting on these projections. Yet the way in which the clause affords grammatical projectability varies significantly from language to language. In fact, it depend…
You know, it’s funny
On assessing situations and events in conversation
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 o…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
Commentary on Stivers and Rossano
JEFF: . . What are you guys doing. Talking or something? JILL: Just talking, JEFF: @@ (H) J=u=st talking? JILL
Exploring Affiliation in the Reception of Conversational Complaint Stories
This chapter investigates the linguistic resources deployed by recipients of conversational complaint stories to show affiliation (or not) with the teller, affiliation being understood as the display of support and endorsement for a conveyed affective stance, here typically anger and/or indignation. Among the verbal means for affiliative reception are claims of understanding, congruent negative assessments and by-proxy justifications, while factu…
On affectivity and preference in responses to rejection
This paper explores the conversation-analytic notion of preference as it applies to the set of affect displays made relevant by the unequivocal rejection of a request or proposal in everyday English conversation. Findings so far indicate that different affect displays on rejection finalizers are realized
Turn Continuation and Clause Combinations
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between “turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation” (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and “new TCU” (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved. The focus is on causal clause combinations, which may be either lexico-syntactically marked (e.g., a…
Requesting in Social Interaction
There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction – particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest, cutting-edge research into requesting by leading international practitioners of Conversation Analysis. The studies trace a line of conceptual development fr…
Requesting in social interaction
Insisting on ‘my side
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that 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'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), respon…
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