Pseudo-clefts: an interactional analysis across languages
In this introduction to the special issue “Pseudo-Clefts from a Comparative Pragmatic Typological Perspective”, we first discuss the current state of research on the use of pseudo-cleft-like structures in talk-in-interaction. We then compare their use in the six languages investigated in this specia...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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August 2023
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Lingua
Year: 2023, Volume: 291, Pages: 1-12 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3841 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103538 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103538 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384123000621 
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| Author Notes: | Yael Maschler, Jan Lindström, Elwys De Stefani |
| Summary: | In this introduction to the special issue “Pseudo-Clefts from a Comparative Pragmatic Typological Perspective”, we first discuss the current state of research on the use of pseudo-cleft-like structures in talk-in-interaction. We then compare their use in the six languages investigated in this special issue: French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Swedish, focusing on both structural features and interactional aspects of pseudo-clefts, as they emerge in social interaction. While there have been some previous interactional linguistic studies of pseudo-clefts in a variety of languages, there has been no study systematically investigating this structure from a comparative and interactional cross-language perspective. Our introduction is thus motivated by the need to fill in this gap. Specifically, we compare the six languages with respect to syntactic and lexico-semantic variation, and with respect to prosodic and embodied features of pseudo-cleft turns. We argue that the findings point to universal interactional motivations for the grammatical properties of this structure, and that the analysis of pseudo-clefts occurring in natural, face-to-face interaction needs to pay close attention to two central dimensions of talk: temporality and embodiment. |
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| Item Description: | Online verfügbar: 3. Juni 2023 Gesehen am 01.08.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 0024-3841 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103538 |