The Interactive Stance

by Jonathan Ginzburg

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational -- e.g. self-repair at the word level -- to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199697922
• ISBN13: 9780199697922
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"