Interactional Linguistics: Studying Language in Social Interaction

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on, and introducing, the linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena. It is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, courses on language in social interaction, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 620 pages
Publication date: 21 December 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This comprehensive introduction to interactional linguistics delves into the analysis of conversational phenomena, offering a theoretical framework and methodological approach to understanding language in social interaction. It explores recent findings on various linguistic practices employed in turn construction, turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization. The book examines how linguistic units of varying sizes, such as sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and particles, are mobilized to carry out specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language, its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters delve into additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language. The book features summary boxes, transcripts from recordings of everyday conversation, and makes it an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on language in social interaction.

Weight: 1238g
Dimension: 177 x 247 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781107616035