This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language originates within the space shared by the speaker and the addressee(s). The first part (“Grammar and Interaction”) concerns how interaction may intervene in grammar; the second part (“The Grammar of Interaction”) approaches both notions and linguistic structures which are anchored in interaction while revolving around epistemicity, evidentiality and modality. The third part (“Interaction as a Model for Discourse”) concerns how certain constructions emerge from interaction and are further used to model discourse. Finally, the fourth and last part of the book (“Interaction as a Driver for Change”) focuses on how interaction may help to delimit linguistic categories.

Preface

Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

Part 1. Grammar and interaction

Impersonal and middle constructions in Spanish oral conflictive discourse

Ricardo Maldonado

The Spanish Epistemic Dative Construction: A modal-evidential stance expression

Nicole Delbecque

Perceptionally constrained repair strategies in morphophonology: Interaction as negotiation

Nicolau A. Dols Salas

Part 2. The grammar of interaction

Evidence type and trustworthiness: The view from social media

Marie Boscaro, Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari

Quotatives and stance taking

Juliana De la Mora Gutiérrez

Speech acts and interrogative particles: An empirical study on the grammar of Catalan eh?

Elena Castroviejo Miró and Laia Mayol

From reference identification to discursive alignment: The (counter)argumentative power of es eso in Spanish

Susana Rodríguez Rosique

Part 3. Interaction as a model for discourse

The grammar of interactives in !Xun (Namibia)

Christa König and Bernd Heine

Discourse relations and evidentiality

Teresa Maria Rodríguez Ramalle

How questions shape interactivity in spoken monologic discourse

Agnès Celle

Part 4. Interaction as a driver for change

How Catalan expresses indifference: Patterns and variants

Mar Massanell i Messalles

From subjunctives to imperatives: The Romance subjunctive schema and its ramifications

Hans-Ingo Radatz

Index