Grammar in Action : Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on alyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactiol Linguistics, which alyzes instances of language use in turally occurring interactions, and Descriptive Grammars, which describe the grammatical regularities of languages. The authors are skilled researchers in Interactiol Linguistics. They alyze interactiol phenome in Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian and Swedish, making concrete proposals about how grammatical phenome might be described in a comprehensive interactiol grammar. The volume also proposes solutions to problems that an interactiol grammar faces, for instance, the written language bias, the role of prosody and the body in the grammar, how to approach different target audiences, and how a web-based grammar could be useful for rendering the complexities of grammar in interaction. [Publisher's text]