{"id":2019,"date":"2012-03-28T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T07:11:50","slug":"new-adventures-in-language-and-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"New adventures in language and interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>New adventures in language and interaction<\/strong>. Ed. by <strong>J\u00fcrgen Streeck<\/strong>. (Pragmatics and beyond new series 196.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vi, 275. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/new-adventures-in-language-and-interaction\/oclc\/553371022&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027256003<\/a>. $135 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=207370\">Lucas Bietti<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>J\u00fcrgen Streeck\u2019s edited book is a continuation of \u2018the Pragmatics and beyond and its companion series\u2019 and is a success at all levels. The contributors cover an extensive range of topics in pragmatics and interaction studies: conversation analysis, systemic-functional linguistics, dialogue studies, gesture studies, and distributed cognition. Each contribution provides a coherent argument on the state of the art in its respective field, integrated methodology, and empirical analyses that illuminate their reflections.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins with a chapter by <strong>Alain Trognon<\/strong> and <strong>Martine Batt<\/strong> where the model of \u2018interlocutory logic\u2019 which the authors employ to describe the \u2018occurrence and the outcome of cognitions during talk-in-interaction\u2019 (19) is introduced. This model relies on four basic phenomenological properties: illocutionarity, successiveness, dialogicity, and recursiveness. In the next chapter, <strong>Stephen J. Cowley<\/strong> claims that language and interaction can be considered a form of distributed cognition which is grounded in full-body activity where brains, bodies, and the material environment are coupled, constituting distributed systems across different space-time scales. <strong>Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni<\/strong> proposes an eclectic approach to discourse in social interaction. Her synthetic perspective combines pragmatics and speech act theory with interactional sociolinguistics and is grounded in hybrid methods commonly used in the fields that the author is trying to integrate.<\/p>\n<p>In the next chapter, <strong>Peter Muntigl<\/strong> and <strong>Eija Ventola<\/strong> present a systemic functional linguistic approach to explore social interaction in order to show how language users rely on grammatical resources in situations of meaning-making. <strong>Angel Lin<\/strong> looks at discourse tactics in intercultural communication in non-egalitarian contexts. <strong>Karen Tracy<\/strong> and <strong>Robert T. Craig<\/strong> introduce an ethnographically oriented discourse-analytic perspective that they call action-implicative discourse analysis. In the next chapter, <strong>Srikant Sarangi <\/strong>presents an activity analysis approach to analyze cases of genetic counseling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Armstrong<\/strong> and <strong>Alison Ferguson<\/strong> explore the ways in which conversation analysis and systemic functional linguistics have contributed to understanding better how aphasic patients perform in situated communicative interactions. The next chapter points out the key role that hand-gesture plays in communicative interactions. <strong>J\u00fcrgen Streeck<\/strong> introduces an ecological approach to human multimodal interaction in which he combines phenomenological perspectives to embodied human experience, distributed cognition, and dynamic system theory in order to argue that \u2018gesture is symbolic, body action evolved from body\u2019s practical engagement with the world\u2019 (237). <strong>Frederick Erickson<\/strong> looks at the ways in which transcription systems can be significantly improved by incorporating musical scores. Finally, the last chapter by <strong>John Shotter<\/strong> gives a dialogical and philosophical account of what living in the world means for humans and, thus, serves as an outstanding concluding chapter for the volume.<\/p>\n<p>This book is recommended for anyone interested in conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, pragmatics, distributed cognition, and (multimodal) discourse analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New adventures in language and interaction. Ed. by J\u00fcrgen Streeck. (Pragmatics and beyond new series 196.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vi, 275. ISBN 9789027256003. $135 (Hb). Reviewed by Lucas Bietti, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen J\u00fcrgen Streeck\u2019s edited book is a continuation of \u2018the Pragmatics and beyond and its companion series\u2019 and is a success at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}