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The Grammar-in-use of Direct Reported Thought in French and German: An Interactional and Multimodal Analysis
Maison d'édition
Göttingen : Verlag für Gesprächsforschung
Date de parution
2024
Nombre de page
302
Résumé
The present work examines the grammar-in-use of direct reported thought in French and German talk-in-interaction. Introduced primarily with specific quotatives (ich denke (mir) (‘I think (to myself)’) in German present and past tense and je me dis (‘I say to myself’) and je suis là (‘I am there’) in French present and past tense), quotations of direct reported thought do not only comprise verbal but also bodily enactments, thus raising important questions concerning the grammar of clause-combining of the bipartite structure [quotative + quote].
While formats of direct reported speech have been thoroughly investigated, also in spoken language, work on direct reported thought still remains scarce, even though the phenomenon demonstrates a distinct use in everyday talk: the investigated quotatives are routinely used by speakers as social action formats for affective or epistemic stance-taking, especially in narrative sequences (storytellings or reasonings).
Within the methodological framework of Interactional Linguistic, this work approaches direct reported thought in talk-in-interaction from a grammatical, multimodal, and cross-linguistic angle. The investigation of both a German and a French corpus of video-recordings of mundane talk enables a close sequential analysis and comparison of reporting thought in two Indo-European languages. Recurring to the notions of emergence and projection, the qualitative analysis shows that speakers of both languages use the social action format of the quotative—despite the cross-linguistic lexical differences—for the accomplishment of the same actions, namely, stance-taking. The integration of bodily resources into the grammatical and sequential analysis demonstrates that the grammar-in-use of direct reported thought should not be limited to verbal conduct. A description of the bipartite structure [quotative + quote] needs to include multiple resources in order to mirror how these patterns emerge in real-time talk-in-interaction in French and German.
While formats of direct reported speech have been thoroughly investigated, also in spoken language, work on direct reported thought still remains scarce, even though the phenomenon demonstrates a distinct use in everyday talk: the investigated quotatives are routinely used by speakers as social action formats for affective or epistemic stance-taking, especially in narrative sequences (storytellings or reasonings).
Within the methodological framework of Interactional Linguistic, this work approaches direct reported thought in talk-in-interaction from a grammatical, multimodal, and cross-linguistic angle. The investigation of both a German and a French corpus of video-recordings of mundane talk enables a close sequential analysis and comparison of reporting thought in two Indo-European languages. Recurring to the notions of emergence and projection, the qualitative analysis shows that speakers of both languages use the social action format of the quotative—despite the cross-linguistic lexical differences—for the accomplishment of the same actions, namely, stance-taking. The integration of bodily resources into the grammatical and sequential analysis demonstrates that the grammar-in-use of direct reported thought should not be limited to verbal conduct. A description of the bipartite structure [quotative + quote] needs to include multiple resources in order to mirror how these patterns emerge in real-time talk-in-interaction in French and German.
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http://verlag-gespraechsforschung.de/2024/fiedler.html
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