Pseudo-clefts

• Verfasst von: Maschler, Yael [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Lindström, Jan [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: De Stefani, Elwys [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Pseudo-clefts
• Titelzusatz: an interactional analysis across languages
• Verf.angabe: Yael Maschler, Jan Lindström, Elwys De Stefani
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: August 2023
• Umfang: 12 S.
• Fussnoten: Online verfügbar: 3. Juni 2023 ; Gesehen am 01.08.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Lingua
• Ort Quelle: New York, NY [u.a.] : Elsevier, 1949
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: 291(2023) vom: Aug., Artikel-ID 103538, Seite 1-12
• ISSN Quelle: 0024-3841
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103538
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Emergent complex syntax
• Sach-SW: Interactional linguistics
• Sach-SW: Multimodality
• Sach-SW: Projecting constructions
• Sach-SW: Pseudo-clefts
• K10plus-PPN: 1854051644

Abstract

In this introduction to the special issue “Pseudo-Clefts from a Comparative Pragmatic Typological Perspective”, we first discuss the current state of research on the use of pseudo-cleft-like structures in talk-in-interaction. We then compare their use in the six languages investigated in this special issue: French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Swedish, focusing on both structural features and interactional aspects of pseudo-clefts, as they emerge in social interaction. While there have been some previous interactional linguistic studies of pseudo-clefts in a variety of languages, there has been no study systematically investigating this structure from a comparative and interactional cross-language perspective. Our introduction is thus motivated by the need to fill in this gap. Specifically, we compare the six languages with respect to syntactic and lexico-semantic variation, and with respect to prosodic and embodied features of pseudo-cleft turns. We argue that the findings point to universal interactional motivations for the grammatical properties of this structure, and that the analysis of pseudo-clefts occurring in natural, face-to-face interaction needs to pay close attention to two central dimensions of talk: temporality and embodiment.