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Book SynopsisThe volume Urban Voices presents studies, analysing how speakers of Russian convey social meanings across a variety of speech situations. Rooted in quantitative and qualitative methodological frameworks, the contributions show how various linguistic, paralinguistic and pragmatic means relate to sociolinguistic dimensions (e.g. display the social, ethnic, local identity of a speaker, the institutional character of a communicative situation). The analyses are the results of the research network Urban Voices, which focuses on the sociolinguistics, grammar and pragmatics of spoken Russian and investigates its linguistic and communicative diversity. The contributors are Olga Blinova, Nina Bodganova-Beglarian, Beatrix Kreß, Lenore Grenoble, Peter Kosta, Elena Markasova, Ludger Paschen, Nicole Richter, Christian Sappok, Tatiana Sherstinova and Nadine Thielemann.
Table of ContentsOlga Blinova: Imperative Utterances in Russian Dialogue – Nina Bodganova-Beglarian: On the Resolution of Hesitation Phenomena – Lenore Grenoble: Multimodality and Interactional Grammar in Russian Conversation – Peter Kosta: Third Position Repair, Overlaps, and Code-Switching – Beatrix Kreß: Relational Work in Conversation – Elena Markasova: The Grammar of Verbal Domination – Ludger Paschen: On Clicks in Russian Everyday Communication – Nicole Richter: How Questions Can Affect Replies – Christian Sappok: Addressing by Voice – Tatiana Sherstinova: Studying Linguistic Variation and Communicative Diversity – Nadine Thielemann: Constructional Patterns Emerging in Talk-In-Interaction
