Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English
speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show …

This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted,
theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive …

" This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to
second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' …

This article explores the principles of interaction that shape grammatical practices of
conversational speech cross-linguistically. Seven such principles are explored, and the …

Studies in Discourse and Grammar is a monograph series providing a forum for research on
grammar as it emerges from and is accounted for by discourse contexts. The assumption …

The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of
conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and …

In this chapter I propose to examine a set of English adjectives and adverbs which typically
occur at points of speaker change in everyday talk, and which either account for the whole of …

The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in
conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as' interactive grammar',
based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the …

Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational
interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation …