Hopper2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Hopper2015 |
| Author(s) | Paul J. Hopper |
| Title | Temporality and the emergence of a construction: a discourse approach to sluicing |
| Editor(s) | Arnulf Deppermann, Susanne Günthner |
| Tag(s) | Interactional Linguistics, sluice, temporality, turn construction |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam/Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 123–146 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.27.04hop |
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| Book title | Temporality in Interaction |
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Abstract
A sluice (Ross 1969) is a wh-word that, in the standard syntactic view, refers to ellipted material in an antecedent clause. In the present study, based on conversational data, I view sluices from a temporal and interactional perspective in which grammatical constructions are seen as emergent in time rather than as fixed stable entities. I analyze the different timings of sluices in terms of their projective, retractive, preemptive and other functions. Pre-sluices are forward-oriented and work to block potential questions that might distract from a current or upcoming theme. Post-sluices are “retractions” (cf. Auer 2009) that close off a completed turn or a sequence of turns.
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