Jorgensen2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Jorgensen2025 |
| Author(s) | Maria Jørgensen |
| Title | Responses to specifying WH-questions, and their place in a comprehensive grammar of interactional Danish |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, questions, responses, phrases, clauses, syntax, social action formats, inter-unit syntax, intra-unit syntax, sequential embeddedness |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 155–191 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.06jor |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 6 |
Abstract
This chapter examines how interactional analyses of response formats to specifying, information-seeking WH-questions in Danish may inform a comprehensive grammar of Danish talk-in-interaction. Based on analyses in Jørgensen’s work (2024), phrasal responses are shown to index sequential embeddedness and treat questions as part of an ongoing trajectory, whereas clausal responses are shown to treat questions as initiating new sequences and trajectories. This chapter analyzes how these descriptions could inform an interactional, comprehensive grammar. I find that it would be useful to include some traditional, grammatical concepts to account for the formats and their differences. However, adopting a more locally specific and positionally sensitive perspective is even more useful. Furthermore, this perspective can be used as a tool for discovering levels of organization at finer levels of granularity.
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