Steensig2025b
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Steensig2025b |
| Author(s) | Jakob Steensig |
| Title | Grammatical formats of requests for immediate actions: Observations on Danish talk-in-interaction |
| Editor(s) | Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen, Søren Sandager Sørensen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, requests, social action formats, embodied formats, phrasal formats, modal verb formats, syntax, parts of speech |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 78–115 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/slsi.37.04ste |
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| Book title | Grammar in Action: Building Comprehensive Grammars of Talk-in-Interaction |
| Chapter | 4 |
Abstract
This chapter investigates three social action formats for requesting immediate action in Danish talk-in-interaction: embodied-only formats, phrasal formats, and modal verb formats. The analyses of the use of these formats serve as a basis for discussing how entries in a comprehensive grammar of Danish talk-in-interaction should be organized and written. This is related to an ongoing project to develop such a grammar (DanTIN 2024). I focus on the consequences of the analyses for concrete entries in the grammar, and for the use of concepts such as multimodality, ellipsis, interrogativity, and sequentiality in the grammar. I argue that some nonverbal formats must be included in the grammar, and I suggest how this can be done. I also argue that sequence organization must be part of a syntactic description, and that the centrality of some traditional syntactic concepts must be reconceptualized.
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