Multimodality, interaction and turn-taking in Mandarin conversation / Xiaoting Li, University of Alberta
- Author:
- Li, Xiaoting (Linguist)
- Published:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Physical Description:
- x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.Orientation -- 1.2.Turn organization in Mandarin conversation -- 1.2.1.Basic organization of turn-taking in Mandarin conversation -- 1.2.2.Turn projection -- 1.3.Multimodal resources in turn organization -- 1.3.1.Syntax and turn organization -- 1.3.2.Prosody and turn organization -- 1.3.3.Body movements and turn organization -- 1.3.4.Interaction of multimodal resources and turn organization -- 1.4.Chapter summary and overview of the book -- ch. 2 Preliminaries and methodology -- 2.1.The data -- 2.2.Data transcription -- 2.3.Methodological approach of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics -- 2.3.1.Conversation analysis -- 2.3.2.Interactional linguistics -- 2.4.Summary -- ch. 3 Syntax in turn organization -- 3.1.Syntactic structure and turn construction -- 3.1.1.Topic-comment structure and turn construction -- 3.1.1.1.Placement of next-turn onset -- 3.1.1.2.Placement of acknowledgement tokens -- 3.1.1.3.Topic-comment structure revisited -- 3.1.2.Copula-complement structure and turn construction -- 3.1.3.Local management of syntactic structuring in turn construction -- 3.1.4.Interim summary and discussion -- 3.2.Syntactic features and turn completion -- 3.2.1.Word order and turn completion -- 3.2.2.Utterance-final particles and turn completion -- 3.2.3.Lexcio-syntactic constructions and turn completion -- 3.3.Summary -- ch. 4 Prosody in turn organization -- 4.1.Prosody and turn construction -- 4.1.1.Definition of intonation units -- 4.1.2.Intonation units in Mandarin conversation -- 4.1.2.1.Internal criterion -- 4.1.2.2.External criteria -- 4.1.3.Intonation units and turn-constructional units -- 4.1.3.1.Intonation units and turn-constructional units in single-TCU turns -- 4.1.3.2.Intonation units and turn-constructional units in multi-TCU turns -- 4.1.4.Interim summary -- 4.2.Prosody and turn completion -- 4.2.1.Preliminaries to analysis -- 4.2.2.Prosodic features of turn completion -- 4.2.2.1.The possible last accent and turn completion -- 4.2.2.2.Discussions of contingent cases -- 4.2.2.3.Interim summary -- 4.3.Summary -- ch. 5 Body movements in turn organization -- 5.1.Preliminaries: Organizational feature of body movements -- 5.2.Hand movements and turn organization -- 5.2.1.Gesture units -- 5.2.2.Gesture units and turn construction -- 5.2.2.1.Gesture units and single-TCU turns -- 5.2.2.2.Gesture units and multi-TCU turns -- 5.2.3.Hand movements and turn completion -- 5.2.4.Interactional evidence for the relevance of hand movements -- 5.2.5.Interim summary -- 5.3.Postural shifts and turn organization -- 5.3.1.Postural shifts -- 5.3.2.Postural shifts and larger interactional units -- 5.3.2.1.Postural shifts and extended turns -- 5.3.2.2.Postural shifts and sequences -- 5.3.3.Interim summary -- 5.4.Summary -- ch. 6 Interplay of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization -- 6.1.Convergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization -- 6.2.Divergence of syntax, prosody, body movements and pragmatic resources in turn organization -- 6.2.1.The role of syntax and pragmatic resources in the divergence -- 6.2.2.The role of prosody and pragmatic resources in the divergence -- 6.2.3.The role of body movements and pragmatic resources in the divergence -- 6.2.4.The role of pragmatic resources in the divergence -- 6.3.Management of divergence and contingency -- 6.4.Summary -- ch. 7 Conclusion -- 7.1.Summary -- 7.2.Implications and future research directions.
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- ISBN:
- 9789027201836 (hb : alk. paper)
9027201838 (hb : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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