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Sintaksa e radhës në bisedë

2016, SHEJZAT - PLEIADES

Conversation is a central activity in social life. On this important fact is oriented the linguistic interest about the interaction. If conversation is so important, it must have left traces in language structures or, if we proceed from the assumption of the founders of the conversation analysis that the different structures of language are designed exactly to serve for conversation, then an important area for study opens to linguists. My focus in this article is the syntax of turns in conversation. There are remarkable points of connection between the organization of turn construction units (TCU) in conversation and the syntax of a clause. Turn organization is interactionally sensitive to the topological syntactic description of the Albanian clausal structure. Specific parts of grammatical structure can be used by speakers to accomplish specific actions in a turn-taking system. Parts of speech can be used by speakers as turn entries, to connect elements within a single TCU, to connect turns with each other, or to prompt a speaker to provide a sequential contribution. This article is a contribution from the interactional linguistics points of view to an understanding of syntactic structures in conversation. The analysis is based on the transcripts of television debates that I have published in 2015.