Constructions as resources for interaction: lists in English and Spanish conversation  

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Sanchez-Ayala, Ivo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 3 (Aug. 2003), page 323-349.
Topik: construction; co-construction; demonstrative list; enumeration; frame; generalized-list-completer; list; routinization; stylized intonation; word-search filler
Fulltext: 323DES53.pdf (153.25KB)

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The comparative study of synchronic occurrences of a particular construction in interactional corpora from different languages can provide a complete understanding of the development of the construction as a response to some basic intimately associated set of interactional moves and cognitive demands. A comparative formal analysis of lists in Spanish and English conversations shows that in both languages the construction has developed a stylized intonation pattern based on the holding of tones by means of lengthening of nuclear syllables, a durable syntactic organization based on parataxis and an almost identical inventory of lexicalized expressions to index the end of the list. A parallel analysis of lists in their interactional contexts shows that in both English and Spanish conversation the formal properties of lists emerge as adaptations to a recurrent set of communicative tasks. The first type of ‘framing’ lists is used for its incremental structure in the negotiation of common background between interlocutors, whereas the second type of ‘demonstrative’ lists is used for its rhetorical structure to provide evidence for a claim and is directed to obtaining agreement.

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