Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction to “Grammar and dialogism: Sequential, syntactic and prosodic patterns between emergence and sedimentation” 1
5. Section I: A dialogic perspective on communicative practices
6. “Don’t get me wrong”: Recipient design by using negation to constrain an action’s interpretation 15
7. Dialogue and tradition: The open secret of language 53
8. Section II: A dialogic perspective on clausal patterns
9. Evidence for a Dialogical Grammar: Reactive constructions in Swedish and German 79
10. Forms of responsivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation 109
11. Elliptical structures as dialogical resources for the management of understanding 139
12. Section III: A dialogic perspective on subordinating constructions
13. The dynamics of dass-constructions in everyday German interactions – a dialogical perspective 179
14. Some observations on free and sentential relative clauses with “was” (‘what’) in German talk-in-interaction 207
15. Fishing for affiliation. The French double causal construction ‘parce que comme’ from a dialogical linguistics perspective 241
16. Section IV: A dialogic perspective on particles and adverbs
17. This, That and the Other: Prospection, Retraction and Obviation in Dialogical Grammar 271
18. Reconstructing the point of reference for stand-alone deswegen 301
19. Dialogism and the emergence of final particles: The case of and 335
20. Index 367