Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction: From Action Formation to Grammatical Description

TY - JOUR

T1 - Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction:

T2 - From Action Formation to Grammatical Description

AU - Steensig, Jakob

AU - Jørgensen, Maria

AU - Mikkelsen, Nicholas

AU - Suomalainen, Karita

AU - Sørensen, Søren Sandager

PY - 2023/6/9

Y1 - 2023/6/9

N2 - Is it possible to develop a comprehensive grammar of talk-in-interaction for a specific language based on descriptions of social actions? This is the question we will try to answer in this article. The article is based on the work of the project The Grammar in Everyday Life, which aims to build a systematic grammatical description of Danish talk-in-interaction based on descriptions of social action formats within three domains: question–answer sequences, commissive–directive sequences, and the negotiation of participation during longer spates of talk. Our ambition is to build a grammar that takes into consideration how talk is used in the real-time unfolding of interaction to do actions and to negotiate relationships. Through a presentation of three formats, we discuss how a grammatical description can be organized, how granular it should be, if and how traditional grammatical categories can be used, and how prosodic and embodied features could be included. Data are in Danish.

AB - Is it possible to develop a comprehensive grammar of talk-in-interaction for a specific language based on descriptions of social actions? This is the question we will try to answer in this article. The article is based on the work of the project The Grammar in Everyday Life, which aims to build a systematic grammatical description of Danish talk-in-interaction based on descriptions of social action formats within three domains: question–answer sequences, commissive–directive sequences, and the negotiation of participation during longer spates of talk. Our ambition is to build a grammar that takes into consideration how talk is used in the real-time unfolding of interaction to do actions and to negotiate relationships. Through a presentation of three formats, we discuss how a grammatical description can be organized, how granular it should be, if and how traditional grammatical categories can be used, and how prosodic and embodied features could be included. Data are in Danish.

KW - Grammatik

KW - Dansk

KW - Samtalesprog

KW - Samtaleanalyse

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163206851&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/08351813.2023.2205304

DO - 10.1080/08351813.2023.2205304

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0835-1813

VL - 56

SP - 116

EP - 140

JO - Research on Language and Social Interaction

JF - Research on Language and Social Interaction

IS - 2

ER -