The Construction of Discourse As Verbal Interaction.

Intro -- The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Discourse structure and verbal interaction -- The encoding and signalling of discourse relations in argumentative discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse: Quantity and quality -- 2.1 Discourse unit -- 2.2 Discursive glue -- 3. Discourse relations and their linguistic realizations -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 Procedure -- 4.3 Results -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Continuation -- 5.2 Contrast -- 5.3 Explanation -- 5.4 Elaboration -- 5.5 Comment -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Discourse editing task -- A typological approach to the encoding of motion events -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Talmy's (1991, 2000) typology of motion events -- 2.2 Slobin's (1991, 1996) "Thinking for speaking" hypothesis -- 2.3 Inter- and intra-typological variation in the expression of motion -- 3. The present study -- 3.1 Methodology -- 3.2 Results and discussion -- 3.2.1 The expression of path -- 3.2.2 The expression of manner -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Pourcel (2005: Appendix H) -- Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research questions -- 3. Corpus data -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Preliminary annotation scheme -- 4.2 Pilot agreement study -- 4.3 Annotation of the larger set -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Cross-genre comparison: News reports, editorials and letters -- 5.2 Cross-linguistic comparison: English and Spanish -- 6. Summary and concluding remarks -- References -- "God that came out quick didn't it eh" -- 1. Introduction: Previous studies and the present study -- 1.1 The tag question construction -- 1.2 Variable and invariable TQs in English -- 1.3 Structure of this study.

2. Research questions and data mining -- 3. Discussion of findings -- 3.1 RQ # 1: Frequency and formal features -- 3.2 RQ # 2: Functional overlap -- 3.3 RQ # 3: Gender trend -- 3.4 RQ # 4: Age trend -- 3.5 RQ # 5: Genre type trend -- 4. Conclusions and prospects for further research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The use of tag questions in the oral production of L2 English learners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English canonical tag questions: A description -- 3. ECTQs in L1 and L2 research -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Overall frequency of ECTQ -- 5.2 Formal properties -- 5.3 Functional properties -- 5.4 Task and frequency of function -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- "Okay … so … nice to meet you? {smiles}" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research context -- 2.1 New usage patterns in online media: Oral computer-mediated discourse and Skype -- 2.2 Conversational openings: Comparing Skype and telephone conversations -- 3. Data: CASE - A corpus of ELF Skype conversations -- 4. Methodology and research hypotheses -- 5. Qualitative analysis of Skype opening sequences: A comparison with telephone conversations -- 5.1 Contact initiation -- 5.2 Greetings (optional nice-to-meet-you) -- 5.3 Reassurance of understanding -- 5.4 How-are-you -- 5.5 Identification -- 5.6 Technical issues -- 5.7 Double openings -- 6. Analysis of transition zones in Skype conversation openings -- 6.1 Defining transition zones -- 6.2 Qualitative analysis of transition zones in Skype openings -- 6.2.1 Discourse markers -- 6.2.2 Hesitation markers and pauses -- 6.2.3 Laughter -- 6.2.4 Repetitions and lengthening -- 6.2.5 Interactive establishment of transition zones -- 6.3 Quantitative analysis of transition zones in Skype openings -- 6.3.1 Methodology -- 6.3.2 Results of the quantitative analysis -- 7. Discussion and conclusion: Opening Skype conversations.

References -- References -- Evaluation and engagement -- Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse systems for expressing stance and evaluation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus for analysis -- 3. The grammatical expression of stance in opinion/persuasion web registers -- 3.1 A survey of lexico-grammatical stance features in English -- 3.2 Lexico-grammatical stance in opinion blogs, reviews, and descriptions-with-intent-to-sell -- 4. The lexical expression of evaluation in opinion blogs, reviews, and descriptions-with-intent-to-sell -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Emotion and appraisal processes in language -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Main argument -- 1.2 Research questions, main hypothesis, and corpus used -- 1.3 Some basic problems -- 1.3.1 How to approach and define emotion -- 1.3.2 The terms used for the categories of emotion -- 1.3.3 The pragmatics of emotion -- 2. Evaluation and emotion in functional linguistics and Appraisal Theory: Discussion of further possibilities of analysis -- 2.1 Emotion talk and emotional talk in combination with the appraisal model systems -- 3. Beyond Thompson's view: In search of a more complete picture -- 4. The method proposed -- 5. Final reflections and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Empathy versus engagement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Narrative engagement: Empathy and beyond -- 3. Storyworld possible selves -- 3.1 Blending theory -- 3.2 SPS blends -- 3.3 Mirror SPS blending -- 3.4 Double-scope SPS blending -- 4. The linguistic anchoring of storyworld possible selves -- 5. SPS projection in Hemingway's "The shooting of the Greek cabinet ministers" -- 5.1 Identifying the character construct in input space 1 -- 5.1.1 Pronominal reference and thematization -- 5.1.2 Narrated perception -- 5.1.3 Double-scope SPS blending and emotional response -- 6. Conclusion.

References -- Literary works quoted -- Two dimensions of language intensity in evaluative discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Related research -- 1.2 Aim of this chapter -- 2. Contextuality -- 2.1 Context-independent intensifiers -- 2.2 Context-dependent intensifiers -- 3. Semantic richness -- 3.1 Semantically poor intensifiers -- 3.2 Semantically rich intensifiers -- 4. Interaction of the dimensions -- 4.1 Contextuality of semantically poor intensifiers -- 4.2 Contextuality of semantically rich intensifiers -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Contribution to the field -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.

Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, this edited volume provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction.

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