TY - BOOK
T1 - Grammar in Action
T2 - Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction
A2 - Steensig, Jakob
A2 - Jørgensen, Maria
A2 - Lindström, Jan K.
A2 - Mikkelsen, Nicholas
A2 - Suomalainen, Karita
A2 - Sørensen, Søren Sandager
PY - 2025/6/3
Y1 - 2025/6/3
N2 - "Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction" investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics, which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, making concrete proposals about how grammatical phenomena might be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target audiences, and how a web-based grammar could be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction.
AB - "Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction" investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics, which analyzes instances of language use in naturally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactional Linguistics. They analyze interactional phenomena in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, making concrete proposals about how grammatical phenomena might be described in a comprehensive interactional grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactional grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target audiences, and how a web-based grammar could be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction.
KW - grammar
KW - interaction
KW - conversation analysis
KW - interactional linguistics
U2 - 10.1075/slsi.37
DO - 10.1075/slsi.37
M3 - Edited Book/Edited Journal
SN - 9789027220080
T3 - Studies in Language and Social Interaction
BT - Grammar in Action
PB - John Benjamins
ER -