Turn Initiating Elements in Everyday Conversations

Conversational Analysis and Radical Minimalism at the Syntax-Semantic Interface

By: Peter Kosta

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Hardcover | 8 August 2023

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278 Pages

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This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn initiating elements in everyday conversations. By combining a pragmatic formal theory with a formal syntax model, this book serves as a guide to the problems of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of spoken everyday talk and as a handbook on conversational analysis.

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Focusing on Czech particles and interjections and how they are used to initiate a new turn, Kosta proposes a new theoretical framework to address the difficult issue of a grammar of language use. This book is a must-read for everybody interested in how human beings can reach an understanding despite the multiplicity of differences permitted in individual talk-in-action.

--Edda Weigand, University of M?nster

This book fills a much-underexplored niche by providing an original perspective on the grammatical mechanisms involved in turn-taking in casual conversation and the underlying formal systematicity of everyday linguistic interaction. Its novel approach to the object of study, grounded on conversational analysis as much as on generative syntax, make this a valuable resource for a wide readership.

--Diego Gabriel Krivochen, University of Oxford

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