Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations
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 to coordinate their joint language...
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Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction?
List of illustrationsList of tablesAcknowledgementsTranscription conventions1Introduction12Overview of the conversational corpus213Initial adverbial clauses264Final versus initial adverbial clauses in continuous intonation635Final adverbial clauses after ending intonation1026Comparison of clause types and apparent deviations from the general patterns1317Conclusion146Notes151References155Author index161Subject index163
