Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations

by Cecilia E. Ford

Book Overview

Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023750
• ISBN13: 9780521023757
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"