Ewing Michael C. Ewing & Laury Ritva Laury 
(Non)referentiality in Conversation [EPUB ebook] 

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Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality through naturalistic data in context. Taking an interactional approach to (non)referentiality, contributors to this volume ask how participants talk in real time about persons and things as individuals or as categories, and what distinguishes ‘referential’ from ‘nonreferential’, ‘specific’ from ‘nonspecific’, and ‘generic’ from ‘nongeneric’. Crucially, we ask whether these distinctions even matter to participants in conversation, and if they do, what the evidence for that would be. Contributors investigate these issues using data from conversational interaction in a variety of social contexts – including between close friends and family to more casual acquaintances, in service encounters, and between adults and children – and in a range of languages: English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Japanese and Mandarin. Collectively, the chapters develop insights showing that reference is often fluid, dynamic, and indeterminate, that referential indeterminacy is typically unproblematic for participants, that shifts in referentiality tend to be tied to specific social goals, and that reference and referentiality emerge dialogically and interactionally.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 215 ● ISBN 9789027247049 ● Éditeur Ewing Michael C. Ewing & Laury Ritva Laury ● Maison d’édition John Benjamins Publishing Company ● Publié 2024 ● Téléchargeable 3 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 9523473 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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