ABSTRACT
This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume contributes new understandings of how speakers jointly negotiate meanings, contexts, identities, and social positions in interaction.
The volume is organized around three key themes in co-construction—co-constructed discourse, pragmatics in discourse, and teaching and assessment of discourse—and builds on the introductory chapter that situates the discussion on context and co-construction as fundamental to understanding meaning-making in interaction. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across strands of linguistics and education, chapters explore both the contextual elements that frame co-construction processes and the distinct dynamics between action and language use across a wide range of interactional contexts, including sports commentary, interviews, everyday conversation, classroom discourse, and digitally mediated settings. Taken together, the book highlights the impact of Koike’s contributions on existing research in pragmatics and discourse and exhibits the potential for her work to frame scholarship on emerging interactional contexts.
This volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse studies, pragmatics, applied linguistics, second language studies, and language education, as well as those interested in interaction across diverse contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
Introduction
part I|69 pages
Co-Constructed Discourse
chapter 2|23 pages
Institutional Roles as Interactional Achievements
chapter 3|22 pages
[A/aa ‘oh’ + demo ‘but’]-Prefaced Affiliative Response in Japanese
part II|69 pages
Pragmatics of Discourse
chapter 5|22 pages
Multimodal and Co-Constructed Speech Acts
part III|74 pages
Teaching and Assessment of Discourse