An empirical study of textual structure

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword xv
5. I. Social Interaction and discourse structures
6. Discourse analysis, structuralism, and the description of social practice 3
7. Third Turn repair 31
8. The transformation of experience, identity, and context 41
9. Deliberative action constructs 57
10. byplay 77
11. An empirical study of textual structure 103
12. Discourse clues to coded language in an impeachment hearing 121
13. The Incongruity of jokes, riddles and humorous situations 139
14. Discourse enumerators and Schegloff’s denominator 153
15. On the interactional bases of speech community membership 183
16. II. Language in use: Syntactic and lexical variation
17. On focusing sentences in brazilian Portuguese 207
18. On kind-sentences, resumptive pronouns, and relative clauses 223
19. Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short stories 237
20. Patterns of incorporation of lexemes in language contact 259
21. The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergence 285
22. Varbrul and the human/inanimate polarization of the Swahili object marker 311
23. Bibliography 339
24. Index 353