Structure and Meaning in Conversation and Literature

by Person, Raymond F., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780761814726
• ISBN10: 0761814728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This work brings together conversation analysis and reader-response theories in order to understand how readers produce meaning when they interact with texts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii	(4)
Note on Transcription Conventions	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
Conversation and Conversation Analysis	1	(5)
Literature and Reader-Response Theory	6	(2)
Grice's Cooperative Principle	8	(2)
Synthesis: Conversation Analysis Meets Reader-Response	10	(9)
Rationale for the Synthesis	10	(2)
Previous Syntheses	12	(2)
Proposed Synthesis	14	(2)
Method	16	(3)
1: The Representation of Speech and Thought	19	(13)
Constructed Dialogue in Conversation	20	(2)
Constructed Dialogue in Literature	22	(5)
A Continuum of Constructed Dialogue	27	(5)
Narrator's Report of Voice	29	(1)
Narrator's Representation of Speech Act	29	(1)
Indirect Speech	30	(1)
Free Indirect Speech	31	(1)
Free Direct Speech	32	(1)
Direct Speech	32	(1)
2: Preference Organization	32	(17)
Preference Organization and Adjacency Pairs	39	(5)
The Co-Production of Meaning	44	(5)
3: Nonlexical Items	49	(22)
"mm hm" and "uh huh" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	51	(5)
Affirmative Responses	51	(1)
Continuers	52	(2)
Passing Up the Opportunity to Initiate a Repair	54	(1)
Summary: "mm hm" and "uh huh" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	55	(1)
"oh" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	56	(7)
Informings	56	(1)
Question-Elicited Informings	57	(1)
Counterinformings	58	(1)
Other-Initiated Repair	59	(1)
Understanding Checks	60	(1)
Displays of Understandings	61	(1)
Summary: "oh" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	62	(1)
"You know" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	63	(4)
Expressing Certainty: Conjoint Knowledge	63	(1)
Expressing Certainty: Emphatic	64	(1)
Expressing Certainty: Attributive	64	(2)
Expressing Uncertainty: Appealing	66	(1)
Expressing Uncertainty: Linguistic Imprecision	66	(1)
Summary: "You know" in Conversation and Literary Discourse	67	(1)
The Co-Production of Meaning	67	(4)
4: Body Movement as Constructed Dialogue	71	(10)
Body Movement and Conversation	71	(2)
Body Movement in Literature	73	(2)
Body Movement as Constructed Dialogue	75	(3)
The Co-Production of Meaning	78	(3)
5: Prosody	81	(30)
Representation of Prosody in Literary Discourse	82	(3)
Disambiguation	85	(1)
Intonation and the Discourse Marker "Now"	86	(2)
The Intonation of Repetition	88	(6)
Intonation and Interruptions	94	(4)
Intonation and Good News/Bad News	98	(10)
Good News in Conversation and Literary Discourse	100	(2)
Bad News in Conversation and Literary Discourse	102	(1)
Bad News Becoming Good News in Literary Discourse	103	(2)
Good News Becoming Bad News in Literary Discourse	105	(3)
The Co-Production of Meaning	108	(3)
6: Restarts	111	(14)
Restarts and Gaze	111	(1)
Restarts and Interruptions	112	(5)
Restarts and Self-Interruptions	117	(1)
Restarts in Literary Discourse Produced by Narrators	118	(4)
The Co-Production of Meaning	122	(3)
Conclusion	125	(6)
Bibliography	131	(18)
Primary Sources	131	(5)
Secondary Sources	136	(13)
Index	149