Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 introduces the background, scope and objectives of this interactional pedagogic grammar of English. A ‘grammar’ is commonly understood as a body of rules concerning the relations between different parts of sentences of a language. We are attempting to describe language in use, such that we are interested in what speakers do with it when they talk to each other, hence pursuing an essentially pragmatic approach to language.The chapter also summarises the contents of the book and the transcription conventions.
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- Expressions, Speech Acts and DiscourseA Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023