Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality Meets Appropriateness

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by  Anita Fetzer

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RecontextualizingContext
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Grammaticality meets appropriateness
Anita Fetzer
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter1
Introduction 1
1.1 Contextandcontexts(cid:2)2
1.1.1 Linguisticcontext(cid:2)4
1.1.2 Socialcontext(cid:2)7
1.1.3 Socioculturalcontext(cid:2)9
1.2 Grammaticalityandwell-formedness(cid:2)12
1.3 Acceptabilityandappropriateness(cid:2)19
1.4 Dialogue:Well-formedandappropriate(cid:2)23
1.5 Goalsandobjectives(cid:2)29
Chapter2
Grammaticalityandcontext 33
2.1 Introduction(cid:2)34
2.1.1 Language,grammarandgrammaticality(cid:2)35
2.1.2 Grammaticalityjudgements:Thecompetence–performance
interface(cid:2)44
2.1.3 Conclusion(cid:2)48
2.2 Contextinsyntax(cid:2)50
2.2.1 Sentencesincontext(cid:2)52
2.2.2 Syntacticabilityandsyntacticstructure(cid:2)55
2.2.3 Conclusion(cid:2)57
2.3 Contextinmorphology(cid:2)58
2.3.1 Wordsincontext(cid:2)59
2.3.2 Word-internalcontexts(cid:2)62
2.3.3 Word-externalcontexts(cid:2)63
2.3.4 Conclusion(cid:2)65
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2.4 Contextinphonology(cid:2)65
2.4.1 Phonemesincontext(cid:2)67
2.4.2 Prosodyincontext(cid:2)69
2.4.3 Conclusion(cid:2)72
2.5 Contextinsemantics/pragmatics(cid:2)73
2.5.1 Context-independentmeaningsincontext(cid:2)76
2.5.2 Context-dependentmeaningsincontext(cid:2)79
2.5.3 Conclusion(cid:2)83
2.6 Conclusions(cid:2)84
Chapter3
Contextandappropriateness 89
3.1 Introduction(cid:2)91
3.2 Speechactsincontext(cid:2)102
3.2.1 Howtodothingswithwordsorasetofnecessaryand
sufficientconditions(cid:2)107
3.2.2 Intentionsincommunication(cid:2)112
3.2.3 Attemptandachievement,andprocessandproduct(cid:2)119
3.2.4 Speechactsandlanguage(cid:2)121
3.2.5 Conclusion(cid:2)128
3.3 Utterancesincontext(cid:2)131
3.3.1 Utterancesandsentences(cid:2)134
3.3.1.1 Languageproductionandlanguageuse(cid:2)138
3.3.1.2 Presumptivemeanings(cid:2)141
3.3.2 Utterancesandspeechacts(cid:2)145
3.3.2.1 Sociolinguisticvariation(cid:2)146
3.3.2.2 Actionsandinteractions(cid:2)151
3.3.3 Utterances,turnsandturn-constructionalunits(cid:2)153
3.3.3.1 Turn-taking(cid:2)154
3.3.3.2 Jointconstruction(cid:2)158
3.3.4 Utterances:Socialandcognitive(cid:2)160
3.3.4.1 Signals,languageandlanguageuse(cid:2)160
3.3.4.2 Jointprojectsandcommonground(cid:2)164
3.3.5 Conclusion(cid:2)167
3.4 Dialoguesincontext(cid:2)168
3.4.1 Thedialogueprincipleofcooperation(cid:2)174
3.4.1.1 Logicandconversation(cid:2)177
3.4.1.2 Conversationalmaxims(cid:2)184
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3.4.1.3 Communicativeintentions(cid:2)189
3.4.1.4 Cooperation,linguisticactsandpragmaticwell-
formedness(cid:2)197
3.4.2 Validityclaimsincontext(cid:2)202
3.4.2.1 Thedialogueactofaplus/minus-validityclaim:
objective,socialandsubjectiveworlds(cid:2)203
3.4.2.2 Communicativeintention:Asubjective-worldconceptor
asocial-worldconstruct?(cid:2)209
3.4.3 Microandmacrocommunicativeintentions(cid:2)211
3.4.3.1 We-intentionalityandI-thou-sociality(cid:2)212
3.4.3.2 Co-suppositions,dialogue-commonground
andcommunicativegenre(cid:2)215
3.4.4 Conclusion(cid:2)222
3.5 Conclusions(cid:2)223
Chapter4
Conclusion:Sentencegrammaranddialoguegrammarrevisited 231
References 239
Othersources(cid:2)252
Nameindex 253
Subjectindex 255

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Acknowledgements
Thisworkowesadebtofgratitudetoalargenumberofpeople,withwhomI
havediscussedcontextindifferentcontexts.Amongstthose,Iamverygrateful
to the organizers of the international and interdisciplinary conferences on
context,CONTEXT’99,CONTEXT’01andCONTEXT’03.Myspecialthanksgo
toVarolAkmanforhiskindsupport,andhelpfulandencouragingcomments.
I am also grateful to Isja Conen of John Benjamins, and I am immensely
gratefulto AndreasJucker for editorial adviceand support,to Teunvan Dijk
and Achim Stein for their supportive comments and criticisms, and to the
anonymousreviewersfortheirhelpfulcommentsandcriticisms.
Andlastbutnotleastmythanksgotodavidanddieter,tosaymorewouldbe
impossible.
AnitaFetzer