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| ISBN: | 9789027289933
902728993X
1282104411
9781282104419
9789027226310
9027226318
6612104414
9786612104411
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and indexes.
Text in English and German.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs. Exclusively found in spoken German, pivots allow a speaker to extend an utterance beyond a possible completion point in a syntactically and prosodically unobtrusive way. Speakers utilize this basic property to promote context-specific actions: managing boundaries of speakership, bridging sequential and topical junctures, an.
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| Other form: | Print version: Betz, Emma. Grammar and interaction. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008 9789027226310 9027226318
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