PekarekDoehler2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | PekarekDoehler2025 |
| Author(s) | Simona Pekarek Doehler, Anne-Sylvie Horlacher |
| Title | An interactional grammar of insubordination: The case of French si ‘if’-clauses |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, insubordination, grammar-in-interaction, emergent grammar, if-clauses, French |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 332–365 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.11doe |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 11 |
Abstract
We take French si ‘if’-clauses as an exemplary case to reflect on how questions about the structures of a language can be fruitfully addressed by considering the conversational actions that speakers accomplish by means of these structures. We demonstrate that an interactional perspective has the potential (a) to shed light on interactional motivations for the formal implementation of ‘if’-clauses, (b) to deepen our understanding of the workings of insubordination, and (c) to open a window onto continua of (in)subordination. Scrutinizing grammatical patterns in relation to temporality/emergence, to the grammar-body interface, and to social action has profound implications for understanding core features of grammar — such as clause-combining and (in)subordination — and for how these features should be represented in a grammar of language use.
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