Course Meetings | |
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| MW 3:00-4:15 | Herring 202 |
Instructor: Dr. Robert Englebretson | ||
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| Office: | Herring 206 | |
| Office Hours: | Mon. 2:00-3:00, Thurs. 2:00-4:00, and by appointment. | |
| Office Phone: | 713 348-4776 | |
| E-mail: | reng {at} rice.edu | |
* Note: If you require course material in an alternative format or need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the instructor and the Disability Support Services Office (Ley Student Center room 122).
This outline is maximally flexible and preliminary, and open to student input. We will add or delete readings and topics based on student goals and interests. Please don’t be shy about suggesting material -- this is YOUR seminar!
| Topic | Dates | Readings |
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| Introduction | weeks 1-2, Aug. 28-Sept. 6 | Ford, Fox, Thompson (2002); Duranti (1994 excerpts); Psathas (1995) |
| Turn-Taking, Projectability, Co-Construction | weeks 3-5, Sept. 11-27 | Ford & Thompson (1996); Auer (1992); Steensig (2001); Streeck (1995); Liddicoat (2004); Helasvuo (2004) |
| Repair | Week 6, Oct. 2-4 | Schegloff (1979); Fox et al. (1996) |
| Sequence Organization, Social Action, and grammar | weeks 7-13, Oct. 9-Nov. 22 | |
| Lef-Dislocation: Keenan & Schieffelin (1976/1983); Geluykens (1988) | ||
| Reference and (zero) anaphora: Oh (2005); Hacohen & Schegloff (2006) | ||
| Questions: Raymond (2003) | ||
| Offers: Curl (2006) | ||
| Requests: Heinemann (2006) | ||
| Negations/Denials: Ford (2001); Kitzinger & Frith (2000); Ford, Fox, & Hellermann (2004) | ||
| Grammatical Relations: Duranti (1990); Fujii & Ono (2000) | ||
| Others TBA (de Ruiter et al. 2006, etc.) | ||
| Grammar, Cognition, and Interaction | Week 14, Nov. 27-29 | Bybee (To Appear); Tomasello (1999 excerpts), others TBA |
| Term Paper Presentations | Week 15, Dec. 4-6 | |
| Dec. 20, Term Papers due by 5pm |
Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. 2002. Social interaction and grammar. In Michael Tomasello, ed. The new psychology of language. vol. 2. 119-143. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Duranti, Alessandro. 1994. From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. (Excerpts from Ch. 2, pp. 14-32.)Berkeley: University of California Press.
Psathas, George. 1995. Conversation Analysis: the study of talk-in-interaction . Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Ford, Cecilia E. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the projection of turn completion. In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Interaction and grammar, 135-184. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Auer, Peter. 1992. The neverending sentence: rightward expansion in spoken language. In Miklós Kontra and Tamás Váradi, eds., Studies in spoken languages: English, German, Finno-Ugric, 41-59. Budapest: Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Steensig, Jakob. 2001. Notes on turn-construction methods in Danish and Turkish conversation. In Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, eds., Studies in interactional linguistics, 259-286. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Streeck, Jürgen. 1995. On projection. In Esther N. Goody, ed., Social intelligence and interaction: expressions and implications of the social bias in human intelligence, 87-110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Liddicoat, Anthony J. 2004. The projectability of turn constructional units and the role of prediction in listening. Discourse Studies 6: 449-469.
Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa. 2004. Shared syntax: the grammar of co-construction. Journal of pragmatics 36: 1315-1336.
Schegloff, Emanuel A., 1979. The relevance of repair to syntax- for- conversation. In Talmy Givon, ed. Syntax and Semantics 12: Discourse and Syntax, 261-286. New York: Academic Press.
Fox, Barbara A., Makoto Hayashi, and Robert Jasperson. 1996. A cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair. In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Interaction and grammar, 185-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin. 1976. Foregrounding referents: a reconsideration of left dislocation in discourse. Berkeley Linguistics Society 2:240-257. [reprinted in Ochs and Scheiffelin, eds., 1983, Acquiring conversational competence, 158-174. London: Routledge.]
Geluykens, Ronald. 1988. The interactional nature of referent-introduction. Chicago Linguistic Society 24.1: 141-154. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Oh, Sun-Young. 2005. English zero anaphora as an interactional resource. Research on language and social interaction 38: 267-302.
Hacohen, Gonen and Emanuel A. Schegloff. 2006. On the preference for minimization in referring to persons: evidence from Hebrew conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 38:1305-1312.
Raymond, Geoffrey, 2003. Grammar and social organization: yes/ no interrogatives and the structure of responding. American Sociological Review 68: 939-967.
Curl, Traci S. 2006. Offers of assistance: constraints on syntactic design. Journal of Pragmatics 38: 1257-1280.
Heinemann, Trine. 2006. 'Will you or can't you?': Displaying entitlement in interrogative requests. Journal of Pragmatics 38: 1081-1104.
Ford, Cecilia E. 2001. At the intersection of turn and sequence: negation and what comes next. In Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Margret Selting, eds., Interactional linguistics, 51-79. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Kitzinger, Celia, and Hannah Frith. 2000. Just say no?: The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal. Discourse and Society 10: 293-316.
Ford, Cecelia E., Barbara A. Fox, and John K. Hellermann. 2004. Getting past no: sequence, action and sound production in the projection of no-initiated turns. In Elizabeth Couper- Kuhlen and Cecelia E. Ford (Eds.) Sound patterns in interaction: cross-linguistic studies from conversation, 233-269. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Duranti, Alessandro. 1990. Politics and grammar: agency in Samoan pollitical discourse. American Ethnologist 17: 646-666.
Fujii, Noriko and Tsuyoshi Ono. 2000. The occurrence and non-occurrence of the Japanese direct object marker o in conversation. Studies in language 24: 1-39.
de Ruiter, J.P., Mitterer, Holger, and Enfield, N.J. 2006. Projecting the end of a speaker's turn: a cognitive cornerstone of conversation. Language 82.3: 515-535.
Bybee, Joan. To Appear. From usage to grammar: the mind's response to repetition. Language.
Tomasello, Michael. 1999. The cultural origins of human cognition. (Excerpts.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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