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It's all about the interaction: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable ...
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Abstract:
Language is humanity’s key tool for communication. This entails the fact that it generally occurs in interaction between two or more individuals. However, we do not yet have a theory of language variation and change that integrates our understanding of the interactional nature of language with the variationist analysis. This is especially challenging for variables above the level of the phoneme, but also applies to phonological variables that are impacted by the interactional context they stand in. This thesis focuses on Listener Responses, a variable above the level of the phoneme, and presents a theory and methodology of sociolinguistic variation that allows us to develop (1) interactionally sensitive de1nitions of discourselevel variables, the envelope of variation, and to quantify them in an accountable manner, (2) coding schemes which situate the function-based variants in the interactional structure and thus allow for an analysis of structural constraints on variation, and (3) a way of applying ...
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Keyword:
conversation analysis; discourse analysis; interaction; language variation; sociolinguistics
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URL: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36759 https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/64
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It's all about the interaction: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable
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