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Ioana-Maria STOENICA 1 Reaching out for recipient uptake: a study of relative clauses in French talk-in-interaction

REACHING OUT FOR RECIPIENT UPTAKE

A Study of Relative Clauses in French Talk-in-interaction

ISLC – Centre de linguistique appliquée Linköping, 23.11.2012

NORDISCO 2012 Ioana-Maria Stoenica


1.1. Aim: work-in-progress on post-gap incremental relative clauses (RCs)

01 A euh voyez ce qu’elle dit euh: [est-ce que ça: ça vous étonne=

see what she says does this this surprise you

02 B [mhm

03 A =qu’on tienne ce genre de discours?

that one has this kind of speech

04 (1.6)

05 A qui est de nouveau un petit peu contrebalancé comme ça hein?

which is again a little bit counterbalanced like that isn’t it

generally: contribute to the on-going discussions on turn continuations/ turn expansions/ delayed completions or increments

(Schegloff 1996; Ford, Fox & Thompson 2002; Lerner 2004; Walker 2004; Lindström 2006;

Auer 2007; Clift 2007; Couper-Kuhlen & Ono 2007; Horlacher 2007; Seppänen & Laury 2007)

specifically: RCs: 1 sequential position different turn continuations => RCs – complex grammatical structure RCs as => multi-layered organisation of turns-at-talk hybrid turn extensions

1. INTRODUCTION


1.2. Object of study

In French: Research on RCs in - oral data (Blanche-Benveniste 1990, 2000 ; Gadet 1992, 1996; Berrendonner 1988,

1990 ; Béguelin 2000) syntactic and - conversational data (Jeanneret 1995) semantic functions

This contribution: Interactional linguistics: RCs in French talk-in-interaction interactional functioning

Specific types of post-gap incremental RCs within and beyond the turn-continuation typology

of Couper-Kuhlen & Ono 2007

1. INTRODUCTION


2.1. Turn continuation typology (Couper-Kuhlen & Ono 2007)

according to their syntactic and semantic dependency on the host turn (Max Min)

Max TCU Continuation Free Constituents New TCUs Min Non-add-ons Add-ons Replacements Increments Insertables Glue-ons Clausal glue-ons Restructuring glue-ons

2. METHODOLOGY


2.2. Data

2. METHODOLOGY

~ 5h of audio-recorded French talk-in-interaction with 2 to 5 participants - 2h – «Enquête de sociologie urbaine» corpus (CLAPI) - 3h – Focus-group corpus (CLA-Neuchâtel)


3. POST-GAP INCREMENTAL RELATIVE CLAUSES

Post-gap incremental patterns containing RCs

[antecedent + RC] pattern => complex NP

[RC] pattern

2 ex.

2 ex.


3.1. Analysis: [antecedent + RC] pattern => complex NP


«Enquête de sociologie urbaine» (Clapi)

Replacement-type turn continuation

Predication upgrade

Skip-tying

.

No immediate syntactic connection

Semantic & pragmatic relation => Free constituents


3.2. Analysis: [antecedent + RC] pattern => complex NP


« P_des choses_que_vous_auriez » (Focus-group C)

Restructuring turn continuation

Paradigmatic replacement

No syntactic connection

Semantic & pragmatic relation => Free constituents

Turn restructuring


3.3. Analysis: [RC] pattern


« Discours_p_qui_est_un_pt_peu » (Focus-group J)

Restructuring turn continuation

Syntactic restructuring

Stance display

Syntactic trajectory extension

Free constituents


3.4. Analysis: [RC] pattern


« Enseignante_histoire_p_qui_pourrait » (Focus-group J)

Syntactic incompletion

Pragmatic completion

Inference + Prosodic delivery

Restructuring continuation

Syntactic and pragmatic restructuring


4. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS

Analyses of post-gap incremental RCs: 1. Already documented observations on turn continuations: In a post-gap position Repair a problem in securing uptake Replace the troublesome elements Replacements Restructure their syntactic trajectories Restructuring glue-ons

2. New observations on incremental RCs: Increment turns without syntactic connection to them Free Constituents Display a stance Skip-tie Complete syntactically incomplete TCUs

Post-gap Incremental RCs = hybrid turn extensions


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Corpus CLAPI : « Entretien 0 », Enquête de sociologie urbaine – Paris-Marais, Lorenza Mondada, CLAPI : http://clapi.univ-lyon2.fr

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

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