Building categories in interaction

Building categories in interaction: linguistic resources at work

by Fiorentini, Ilaria Goria, Eugenio Mauri, Caterina

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"This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be 'put to work' in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Building categories in interaction : linguistic resources at work / edited by Caterina Mauri, University of Bologna ; Ilaria Fiorentini, University of Pavia ; Eugenio Goria, University of Turin.

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"This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be 'put to work' in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence"--

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  • Publication Date:2021

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Notes

Chapters are based on contributions to the workshop Building Categories in Interaction: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Categorization, held in Bologna on October 19-20, 2017.

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  • Description:vi, 467 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027209504, 9027209502
  • oclc:on1258216049
  • LC Classification:P128.C37
  • Dewey Decimal:415

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