Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
3 - Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Communicative Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 3 Basis for the Description of Discourse as an Interactive Process
- 4 On Keeping Talking Without Saying Anything (Much): The Use of Gambits in Interaction
- 5 Using Words to Make Meaning: Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions in Everyday Talk
- 6 On Saying What You Mean: Illocutions in Different Interactional Slots
- 7 Building Up Interactional Episodes
- 8 Types of Talk in the Global Classroom
- 9 The Interactional Practice of Grammatical Items
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 presents a comprehensive way of analysing and describing interaction, serving as a model for the descriptions offered in the rest of the book. In the descriptive system explicated in this chapter, we approach interaction through units of various size, including expressions, illocutionary acts and Types of Talk representing discourse. The system presented in this chapter was not derived in a top-down manner, but ratheremerged as an outcome of extensive empirical research.
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- Expressions, Speech Acts and DiscourseA Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English, pp. 23 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023