Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the real-time and on-line dimension of spoken language.
This volume is the first systematic collection of studies exploring temporality in interaction and its theoretical foundations. It brings together researchers focusing on how temporality impinges on the production and interpretation of linguistic structures in interaction and how linguistic resources are designed to deal with the exigencies and potentials of temporality in interaction. The volume provides new insights into the temporal design of a range of heretofore unexplored linguistic phenomena from various languages as well as into the temporal aspects of linguistic structures in embodied interaction.
Contents
Introduction: Temporality in interaction
Arnulf Deppermann and Susanne Günthner
Mechanisms of temporality in interaction
The temporality of language in interaction: projection and latency
Peter Auer
Retrospection and Understanding in Interaction
Arnulf Deppermann
Ephemeral Grammar: At the far end of emergence
Cecilia E. Ford and Barbara A. Fox
Temporally-structured constructions – a temporal perspective on syntactic constructions
Temporality and the Emergence of a Construction: A Discourse Approach to Sluicing
Paul J. Hopper
Temporality and syntactic structure: utterance-final intensifiers in spoken German
Wolfgang Imo
Grammar, projection and turn-organization: il y a NP ‘there is NP’ as project construction in French talk-in-interaction
Simona Pekarek Doehler
Word Order in Time: Emergent Hebrew (NS)V/VNS Syntax
Yael Maschler
A temporally oriented perspective on connectors in interactions: und zwar ('namely/in fact')-constructions in everyday German” conversations
Susanne Günthner
Temporal organization of multimodal interaction
Multimodal completions
Lorenza Mondada
Coordinating the temporalities of talk and dance
Leelo Keevallik