The Contextualization of Language
by Auer, Peter
This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant to the local interpretation of their verbal and…
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- Full title :The Contextualization of Language.
Summary
This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant to the local interpretation of their verbal and nonverbal activities. On an empirical level, the volume contains exemplary analyses that show how pa.
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- Publication Date:1992.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1992.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (420 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027285928, 9027285926, 1283092751, 9781283092753, 9786613092755, 6613092754
- oclc:ocn713010225
- LC Classification:P325.5.C65 C66 1991
- Dewey Decimal:306.4/4
Table of Contents
THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: John Gumperz' Approach to Contextualization; Contextualization Revisited; The Indeterminacy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough?; Context, Activity and Participation; Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language; Comments on: Christian Heath: Gesture's Discreet Tasks. Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and the Contextualisation of Language.
The Return Gesture: Some Remarks on Context, Inference, and Iconic GestureGendered Contexts; Theatrical Moments: On Contextualizing Funny and Dramatic Moods in the Course of Telling a Story in Conversation; Comments on: Klaus Müller: Theatrical Moments; Intonation as a Contextualization Devices: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation; Comments on: Margret Selting: Intonation as a Contextualization Device; Continuing and Restarting.
Contextualizing Relevance: On Some Forms and Functions of Speech Rate Changes in Everyday ConversationContextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactiv…
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