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Projecting turn extension:
The temporality of clause-combining practices
Overview
Overview
By analysing naturally occurring conversational Italian, we focus on the temporal and sequential dimension of turn-construction, hence examining clause combining as an emerging, intersubjective achievement. More specifically, we study a recurrent phenomenon in language-in-interaction, whereby an interactant (pre-emptively) completes a speaker’s turn-in-progress (“collaborative turn sequences”, Lerner 1987, 1991, 1996; “co-constructions”, Lerner 1991; “collaborative turns”, Bolden 2003; (other)-“increments”, Ono & Couper Kuhlen 2007; Schegloff 2016). Using Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson 1974) and Interactional Linguistics (Selting & Couper-Kuhlen 2001; Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 2018), we analyse video data of multi-party interactions taking place in ordinary (dinners) and institutional (business meetings) settings, zooming in on the relationship between the emergent (Hopper 1987), online (Auer 2009), embodied grammar and the social action speakers accomplish with other-completions. Our research is a contribution to the analysis of clause-combination from an interactional and multimodal perspective.
selected references
selected references
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Lerner, G. H. 1996. On the ‘semi-permeable’ character of grammatical units in conversation. Conditional entry into the turn space of another speaker. In Ochs, E., Schegloff, E., Thompson, S. (Eds.). Interaction and Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 238-276.
Ono T., & Couper-Kuhlen, E. 2007. ‘Incrementing’ in conversation: A comparison of practices in English, German and Japanese. Pragmatics 17(4): 513-522.
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Schegloff, E. A. (2016). Increments. In J. D. Robinson (Ed.), Accountability in social interaction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 239–263.
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Virginia Calabria
Virginia Calabria
Elwys De Stefani
Elwys De Stefani
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Simona Pekarek Doehler
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