(Non)referentiality in conversation / edited by Michael C. Ewing, University of Melbourne, Ritva Laury, University of Helsinki.
| Other author | Ewing, Michael C. |
| Other author | Laury, Ritva. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; volume 344 |
| Contents | Toward the interactional relevance of (non)referentiality / Ritva Laury, Michael C. Ewing & Sandra A. Thompson -- Elusive referentiality and allusive reference in Indonesian conversation / Michael C. Ewing -- First and second person forms as resources for open reference and participation in Finnish everyday conversations / Marja-Liisa Helasvuo & Karita Suomalainen -- The (non-)referentiality of the word raha 'money' in Finnish conversation / Ritva Laury -- Young children's experience of referentiality and nonreferentiality in dialogue / Marine Le Mené, Anne Salazar Orvig, Christine da Silva-Genest & Haydée Marcos -- (Non)referentiality of silent reference in Japanese conversation: how and what are inferred / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- The indeterminacy and fluidity of reference in everyday conversation / Tsuyoshi Ono & Sandra A. Thompson -- Manipulating referentiality and creating phaticness: repeated use of novel ad hoc NPs in Japanese conversation / Ryoko Suzuki -- An interactional approach to generic second person expressions in Mandarin conversation / Hongyin Tao. |
| Abstract | "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 - from 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024002707 |
| ISBN | 9789027214621 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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