Overview

This volume provides a detailed analysis of the relationships between form and function in spontaneous spoken language. The contributors analyse English, German and Spanish data to present a multilingual perspective on the complexities facing speakers in a variety of contexts. Through an examination of the language of everyday conversation, interviews, consultations, task-based dialogues, football commentaries, radio-play productions and intercultural conversations, the book demonstrates the effect of informational, discourse-external and personal factors on form and shows how speakers position themselves in relation to their discourse, orchestrate different tasks, move between different 'voices', and negotiate meaning. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the multiple layers of spontaneous spoken language. Spoken Language Pragmatics presents research that will be of interest to academics working in linguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.

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Author:   Dr Regina Weinert
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780826493316

ISBN 10:   0826493319
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   26 July 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Regina Weinert (University of Sheffield) 1. Demonstrative and personal pronouns in formal and informal conversations: Regina Weinert (University of Sheffield) 2. Grammatical past time reference in spontaneously produced language: Torsten Muller (University of Sheffield) 3. The structure and function of wenn-clauses and their role in problem-solving discourse: Regina Weinert (University of Sheffield) 4. The relationship between deixis and modality: Regina Weinert (University of Sheffield) 5. Modal particles and emotion: Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University) 6. Speech rate, time pressure and emotion in English and German football commentary: Torsten Muller and Robert Mayr (University of Sheffield and University of Wales) 7. Multivoicedness and artistic reformulations in directing-conversations: Andrea Milde (Wenzao College of Languages, Kaohsiung) 8. Intercultural positioning: Tandem conversations about word meaning: Jane Woodin (University of Sheffield)

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Regina Weinert is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Linguistics at the University of Sheffield.

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