Spontaneous Spoken English

An Integrated Approach to the Emergent Grammar of Speech

AvAlexander Haselow

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

A new, thought-provoking book on the theory of grammar and language processing, based on the analysis of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, neurology and conversation analysis, the author offers a fascinating, easy-to-follow account of why spoken English is structured the way it is. The traditional product-based approach to grammar is given up in favour of a speaker-based, dynamic perspective that integrates language-structural, neurocognitive and dialogic aspects of speech production. Based on fresh empirical research Haselow argues that grammatical knowledge rests upon two cognitive principles of linearization called 'microgrammar' and 'macrogrammar', which are shown to interact in various ways. The book discusses a broad range of speech phenomena under an integrated framework, such as the omnipresence of 'unintegrated' constituents (e.g. discourse markers), ellipses, or the allegedly 'fragmented' character of syntax, and explains the mechanisms of processing efficiency that guide syntactic planning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in English Language
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108404709

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Mer om författaren

Alexander Haselow is Assistant Professor of English linguistics at the University of Rostock, Germany. His current research focuses on the cognitive, dialogic and neural mechanisms underlying the production and perception of speech in real time. He is the author of Typological Changes in the Lexicon – Analytic Tendencies in English Noun Formation (2011) and co-editor of Final Particles (2015).

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'… this book represents an illuminating interdisciplinary study that broadens the perspective of linguistic analysis by considering not only the context of an individual interaction, but also the cognitive mechanisms that give rise to the emergent grammar of spontaneous speech. Without doubt, this book can be used as a good reference book for students and researchers who are interested in interactional linguistics and cognitive linguistics.' Haiping Wu, Journal of Pragmatics

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Toward an interfield approach to the study of spontaneous speech; 3. A dualistic approach to grammar: Microgrammar and macrogrammar; 4. Linearization and macrogrammatical fields; 5. Macrogrammar and the linearization of structural segments; 6. Neurolinguistic evidence for the Grammatical Dualism Assumption; 7. Conclusions.