Fox2025
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Fox2025 |
| Author(s) | Barbara A. Fox, Chase Wesley Raymond |
| Title | On granularity in grammar and action |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, grammar, granularity, morphosyntax, prosody, particles, interactional linguistics |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 26–46 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.02fox |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 2 |
Abstract
In this study, we explore the relevance of granularity to the study of grammar-in-interaction, with special reference to the writing of an online grammar (cf. Steensig, et al. 2023). In CA/IL research, it routinely occurs that a form or action is described and analyzed at one level of detail, and then subsequent research reveals that that form/action actually displays meaningful and ordered variation that deserves more focused examination. Here we summarize previous studies which reveal the significance of more granular descriptions, and we discuss our maxim — arising from Sacks’ claim that there is ‘order at all points’ — that the more granular our analytic approaches are, the more granular our understandings of forms and actions will become.
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