Calabria2025
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| BibType | INBOOK |
| Key | Calabria2025 |
| Author(s) | Virginia Calabria |
| Title | Other-extensions in Italian. A case of and for Collaborative Grammar |
| Editor(s) | Steensig, J., Jørgensen, M., Lindström, J.K., Mikkelsen, N., Suomalainen, K. & Sørensen, S.S. |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 392-420 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.37.13cal |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction |
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the practice of other-extending a prior speaker’s complete turn in Italian. By drawing on the grammatical formatting and/or reusing elements in prior turns to extend them, speakers deploy Collaborative Grammar (Calabria 2022), a set of grammatical formats and resources available in a language to design turns to be heard as grammatically integrated. Using Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, three actions are identified that speakers achieve by other-extending in Italian multiperson interactions: providing additional information, verifying while demonstrating understanding, and reframing prior talk as laughable. This chapter argues that practices implemented with Collaborative Grammar between multiple speakers should constitute a dedicated section in a comprehensive grammar that aims at describing the competing temporalities of multiperson interactions.
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Keywords: Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, other-extensions, Collaborative Grammar, collaborative turns, shared syntax, multiperson interaction, participation framework, recipiency, Italian talk-in-interaction
