User:Aspceo/sandbox

This will be the shared Sandbox for the article Interactional linguistics

Catie's Edits

Some changes I plan to make to this article:

• Make the article more comprehensible for readers

This article is difficult to understand. The different information within the article does not transition well, and it is not immediately clear how some of the information relates to the article. I would like to rewrite some of the information in a way that makes it more clear to the readers what exactly it is that they are reading. Currently, the information is not broken up well into separate topics, and it is not understandable until the end of the article how all the information comes together.

• Add more recent information

One of the major mentioned sources of information in the article is from 1987. While it is mentioned that there are more recent works on the topic, they are not really discussed in detail. I want to add more recent information from more recent sources to this article.

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Catie's Article Edits

• I will be editing the word and sentence structure of the first paragraph and second paragraph to make them more easily understood. There is some information in the first paragraph that should be moved to the second, as well as some information in the second paragraph that should be moved to the first.

Copied (and edited) from Interactional linguistics article: (Final Edits)

Interactional linguistics is an interdisciplinary approach to grammar and interaction in the fields of linguistics, sociology of language, and anthropology. Interactional linguistics asserts that grammar emerges from interactions among language users,[4] unlike the principles of generative grammar and the concept of Universal Grammar, which claims that features of grammar are innate.[5] Emergent grammar and other interactional theories claim that the human language faculty has no innate grammar and that features of grammar are learned through experience and social interaction.[4] Ccm110 (talk) 00:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Paul Hopper originally proposed emergent grammar as a functional approach to the study of syntax in 1987.[1] Later works expanded to include approaches to phonology and other aspects of grammar.[2] Emergent grammar suggests that rules of grammar emerge as language is used and spoken. This is contrary to the a priori grammar postulate, the idea that grammatical rules exist in the mind before one begins speaking.[3] Ccm110 (talk) 01:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC) Ccm110 (talk) 22:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Pranav's Edits

Edits I want to make to the article. I want to also improve on the way that emergent grammar is related to Interactional linguistics, because it's not really clear. I want to also add a section on discourse and how that fits into the whole equation.

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4/07/2019 -

We should see if we can't contain and categorize the information also already in the article, as without any structure it might also look weird.

Pranav's Article Edits

Starting the section on Discourse

Proposed Edit: This lies after: Interactional linguistics has developed in linguistic discourse analysis and conversation analysis, and is used to investigate the relationship between grammatical structure and real-time interaction and language use.[6]

Further, the topic of normativity in a discourse or a social norm both contribute to how a conversation functions. There is a common ground that both parties in a conversation use in order to determine how to both continue a conversation and what sort of social syntax to use. For example, if two workers were speaking together, the interaction between them would be different, more informal, compared to how a worker and their boss might interact in a more formal manner.

Sorry, forgot to tag my timestamp but it is in the view history when I made the changes Aspceo (talk) 04:52, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Continuing on. With these new looks at interactions, we can start to look at a basis and build specific ideas for the topic off of these interactions. And this is how discourse is relevant even though, discourse itself is always changing.Aspceo (talk) 01:15, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Zhen's Edits

The edits I want to make here is to revise the article I chose and add things to it so that definitions and ideas would be really clear and comprehensible to everyone, even a layperson.

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Zhen's Article Edits

• This time I introduced interactional linguistics briefly on what it is. Also, I started to work on interactional linguistics's history - how has it developed.

Interactional linguistics, produced by a few fields – linguistics, anthropology, and conversation analysis, is a way of thinking about language grammar and use. Not only is interactional linguistics about language grammar and use, but it encompasses a wide range of language as well – syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and so on. Interactional linguistics is a project in which linguistic structures and uses are formed through interaction and it aims at helping people understanding how languages are formed through interaction.Zhenzhenchen (talk) 01:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

A few centuries ago, students and researchers were only investigating written language - in the form of words and sentences. With the improvement of technology, linguists have started to focus on spoken language as well due to its functions in intonation and transcription systems. Starting to investigate spoken language on its own is the start of interactional linguistics’ development. Zhenzhenchen (talk) 00:16, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Afterward, function-directed linguists were working on relations between discourse function and linguistic form. Though the functional linguistic study wasn’t all about conversational interaction, it was really helpful for the language study which saw linguistic form as being useful on situated occasion of use.

The next step which made interactional linguistics develop was the important work on conversation analysis. Some sociologists were saying the study of everyday language was the essence of social order; some other kinds of discourse were said to be understood as habituations of the fundamental conversational order. The term talk-in-interaction was created as an inclusive term for all of naturally speech exchange. Zhenzhenchen (talk) 01:17, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Final Edits

Pranav's This lies after: Interactional linguistics has developed in linguistic discourse analysis and conversation analysis, and is used to investigate the relationship between grammatical structure and real-time interaction and language use.[6]

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Further, the topic of normativity in a discourse or a social norm both contribute to how a conversation functions. There is a common ground that both parties in a conversation use in order to determine how to both continue a conversation and what sort of social syntax to use. For example, if two workers were speaking together, the interaction between them would be different, more informal, compared to how a worker and their boss might interact in a more formal manner.

Catie's Final Edits

(I have edited the first 2 paragraphs to be easier to read/understand)

Interactional linguistics is an interdisciplinary approach to grammar and interaction in the fields of linguistics, sociology of language, and anthropology. Interactional linguistics asserts that grammar emerges from interactions among language users,[4] unlike the principles of generative grammar and the concept of Universal Grammar, which claims that features of grammar are innate.[5] Emergent grammar and other interactional theories claim that the human language faculty has no innate grammar and that features of grammar are learned through experience and social interaction.[4]

Paul Hopper originally proposed emergent grammar as a functional approach to the study of syntax in 1987.[1] Later works expanded to include approaches to phonology and other aspects of grammar.[2] Emergent grammar suggests that rules of grammar emerge as language is used and spoken. This is contrary to the a priori grammar postulate, the idea that grammatical rules exist in the mind before one begins speaking.[3]

Zhen's Final Edits

I've proofread my previous work.

Interactional Linguistics, produced by a few fields – linguistics, anthropology, and conversation analysis, is a way of thinking about language grammar and use. Not only is Interactional Linguistics about language grammar and use, but it encompasses a wide range of language as well – syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and so on. Interactional linguistics is a project in which linguistic structures and uses are formed through interaction and it aims at helping understanding easier how languages are formed through interaction.

Interactional Linguistics was not really developed until recently. A few centuries ago, students and researchers were only investigating written language. With the improvement of technology, linguists have started to focus on spoken language as well due to its functions in intonation and transcription systems. Starting to investigate spoken language on its own is the start of Interactional linguistics’ development.

Afterward, function-directed linguists were working on relations between discourse function and linguistic form. Though the functional linguistic study wasn’t all about conversational interaction, it was really helpful for the language study which saw linguistic form as being useful on situated occasion of use.

The next step which made interactional linguistics develop was the important work on conversation analysis. Some sociologists were saying the study of everyday language was the essence of social order; some other kinds of discourse were said to be understood as habituations of the fundamental conversational order. The term talk-in-interaction was created as an inclusive term for all of naturally speech exchange.