The has selected聽聽(co-authored by 欧美口爆视频 Linguistics Prof.聽Barbara Fox, with Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen) as the recipient of the 2018 Best Book Award! This prestigious award is given out once every four years, at the quatrennial , held this year at Loughborough University, U.K.
The committee charged with selecting the recipient of this award writes the following about the book:聽聽聽
Thompson, Fox, and Couper-Kuhlen鈥檚 (2015)聽Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions聽brings together both prior and novel research from Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis on a range of responsive actions: Responses to question-word interrogatives, informings, assessments, and requests for action. Each of the book鈥檚 chapters targets the forms that responsive actions take in a particular action environment鈥攅.g., a particle, a phrase, a minimal vs. expanded clause, etc.鈥攁nd looks at similarities and differences within and across sequence types. The authors make a profound case for investigating the use of grammar from a positionally-sensitive, action-based perspective, while simultaneously illustrating just how much light an attention to grammar can shed on unpacking sequences of action. As such, this work deepens our understanding not only of social action and of grammar鈥攁s separate, individual areas of interest鈥�, but in so doing simultaneously underscores that these two areas of study must necessarily mutually inform one another, as both must be a part of any empirically grounded account of language use in social interaction.聽
Congratulations, Barbara, Sandy, and Betty, on a very well-deserved honor!聽