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Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation

Turn-taking, turn-maintaining and turn-yielding

Abstract

This chapter examines nel senso (che) ‘in the sense (that)’ in present-day conversational Italian. Speakers can use the resource to start a turn, to extend a turn-in-progress, or to yield a turn to a next speaker. In TCU-beginnings, it is describable as a projector construction, allowing speakers to display continuation of their turn (with a new clause). When extending a turn with nel senso (che), speakers display orientation towards a potential problem of understanding which they prevent by elaborating on their prior talk. In turn- and TCU-initial positions, both nel senso che and nel senso are observed; in turn-final positions only the latter format occurs. The chapter analyzes the syntactic, prosodic, embodied, and praxeological corollaries of the resource.

Abstract

This chapter examines nel senso (che) ‘in the sense (that)’ in present-day conversational Italian. Speakers can use the resource to start a turn, to extend a turn-in-progress, or to yield a turn to a next speaker. In TCU-beginnings, it is describable as a projector construction, allowing speakers to display continuation of their turn (with a new clause). When extending a turn with nel senso (che), speakers display orientation towards a potential problem of understanding which they prevent by elaborating on their prior talk. In turn- and TCU-initial positions, both nel senso che and nel senso are observed; in turn-final positions only the latter format occurs. The chapter analyzes the syntactic, prosodic, embodied, and praxeological corollaries of the resource.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
  4. Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
  5. Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
  6. Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
  7. Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
  8. Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
  9. Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
  10. Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
  11. Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
  12. Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
  13. Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
  14. Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
  15. Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
  16. Chapter 12. Afterword 331
  17. Index 339
Emergent Syntax for Conversation
This chapter is in the book Emergent Syntax for Conversation
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.32.02ste

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Chapter 1. Complex syntax-in-interaction 1
  4. Part I. Emerging projecting constructions
  5. Chapter 2. Nel senso (che) in Italian conversation 25
  6. Chapter 3. The emergence and routinization of complex syntactic patterns formed with ajatella ‘think’ and tietää ‘know’ in Finnish talk-in-interaction 55
  7. Chapter 4. The insubordinate – subordinate continuum 87
  8. Chapter 5. Emergent patterns of predicative clauses in spoken Hebrew discourse 127
  9. Chapter 6. From matrix clause to turn expansion 151
  10. Part II. Locally emergent clause-combining patterns
  11. Chapter 7. Practices of clause-combining 185
  12. Chapter 8. Grammatical coordination of embodied action 221
  13. Chapter 9. Consecutive clause combinations in instructing activities 245
  14. Chapter 10. Right-dislocated complement clauses in German talk-in-interaction 275
  15. Chapter 11. Relative-clause increments and the management of reference 303
  16. Chapter 12. Afterword 331
  17. Index 339
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