Main description:
This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to jointly produce a coherent grammatical unit-in-progress, and explores the range of social actions that speakers accomplish by employing that practice. This study is part of a larger project intended to investigate how humans achieve intricate coordination of their behavior with that of co-participants in everyday social encounters and how language plays a constitutive part in making such micro-level social coordination possible. Through a close examination of joint utterance construction in Japanese, this book contributes to a growing body of research into the mutual influence between the grammatical organization of language and the organization of situated human conduct in social interaction.
Table of contents:
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preliminaries
- 3. Activity, participation, and joint utterance construction
- 4. Grammar and opportunities for joint turn construction
- 5. Language and the body as resources for socially coordinated participation in situated activities
- 6. Postposition-initiated utterances
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Name index
- Subject index
This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to jointly produce a coherent grammatical unit-in-progress, and explores the range of social actions that speakers accomplish by employing that practice. This study is part of a larger project intended to investigate how humans achieve intricate coordination of their behavior with that of co-participants in everyday social encounters and how language plays a constitutive part in making such micro-level social coordination possible. Through a close examination of joint utterance construction in Japanese, this book contributes to a growing body of research into the mutual influence between the grammatical organization of language and the organization of situated human conduct in social interaction.
Table of contents:
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Preliminaries
- 3. Activity, participation, and joint utterance construction
- 4. Grammar and opportunities for joint turn construction
- 5. Language and the body as resources for socially coordinated participation in situated activities
- 6. Postposition-initiated utterances
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Name index
- Subject index