Spoken Language Pragmatics: Analysis of Form-Function Relations
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...
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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 comparison of the complexities facing speakers in each language. Through an examination of the language of everyday conversation, radio-play productions, football commentaries, interviews, consultations, task-based dialogues and intercultural conversations, the book shows how speakers position themselves in relation to their discourse, orchestrate different tasks, use markers of time and space, move between different 'voices' and shift between personal and informational levels. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of spontaneous spoken language. Spoken Language Pragmatics presents cutting-edge research that will be of interest to academics working in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.
Preface ixContributors xiIntroduction xiiiDemonstrative and personal pronouns in formal and informal conversations Regina Weinert 1Grammatical past time reference in spontaneously produced language Torsten Muller 29The structure and function of wenn-clauses and their role in problem-solving discourse Regina Weinert 60The relationship between deixis and modality Regina Weinert 94Modal particles and emotion Natalie Braber 128Speech rate, time pressure and emotion in English and German football commentary Torsten Muller Robert Mayr 160Multivoicedness and artistic reformulations in directing-conversations Andrea Milde 182Intercultural positioning: tandem conversations about word meaning Jane Woodin 208Index 239
