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Author Betz, Emma.

Title Grammar and interaction : pivots in German conversation / Emma Betz.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations.
English language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 21
Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and indexes.
Contents Grammar and Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Preliminaries; Chapter 3. Pivot constructions as a syntactic resource for turn-taking; Chapter 4. Pivots at sequential and topic boundaries; Chapter 5. Pivot constructions as a resource for managing repair; Chapter 6. Pivot constructions in embedded self-correction; Chapter 7. Concluding discussion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References; Name index; Subject index; The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar.
Summary This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs. Exclusively found in spoken German, pivots allow a speaker to extend an utterance beyond a possible completion point in a syntactically and prosodically unobtrusive way. Speakers utilize this basic property to promote context-specific actions: managing boundaries of speakership, bridging sequential and topical junctures, an.
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Language Text in English and German.
Subject German language -- Spoken German.
German language -- Spoken German.
German language -- Grammar.
German language -- Grammar.
German language.
German language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
German language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Textbooks -- for English speakers.
Textbooks.
Textbooks.
Other Form: Print version: Betz, Emma. Grammar and interaction. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008 9789027226310 9027226318 (DLC) 2008033088 (OCoLC)237788735
ISBN 9789027289933 (electronic book)
902728993X (electronic book)
1282104411
9781282104419
9789027226310 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027226318 (hardback ; alkaline paper)