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This research paper explores the relationship between pragmatic functions on conversational-discursive development and the gestures, within McNeill's (2016) theoretical frame, appeared along with these functions. In order to achieve this, firstly, linguistics structures that carry out pragmatics functions are recognized; secondly, the interrelation that this pragmatically marked structures with gestures is described; and, thirdly, frequent relations are analyzed in terms of the cooccurrence of such communicational resources. Furthermore, it is presented a first attempt to describe sexual variation about the relation between pragmatic management and gestures. The analyses of six conversational narrations conclude there are some relations between given topic (GTop) and completive focus (FocCompl) with various types of gestures. These cooccurrences are nonstatic and should be reviewed in a more extensive corpus. Also, data shows that male-female couples present more pragmatically marked functions than the other groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Co-construction is basically a dialogical manifestation of conversational narratives, that becomes less productive when the communicative situations gain in formality and structuring. This paper analyzes the transition between conversational narrative and formal conversation to discover how co-constructions tends to disappear and get controlled in the formal communication. The study is based on an oral diaphasic corpus of Mexican Spanish, that allows to compare different levels of formality from oral conversations in different communicative situations, showing how the pragmatic conditions of the conversation operate in each level of formality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study starts from the premise that the linguistic skills of grammatical nature involved in speech production of children with Asperger syndrome are shown intact or unaltered, whereas most of the dysfunctions in the discursive dimension are associated to specifically pragmatic skills. This idea is compatible with the underconnectivity theory, according to which there would be a neurophysiological correlate capable of explaining such discrepancies between grammatical and pragmatic skills. Likewise, it is considered that communicative dysfunctions in Asperger syndrome may be due to an integration deficit. In order to support these assumptions, the analysis of different categories is carried out; more exactly, grammatical skills (syntactic complexity and lexical diversity, cohesion and coherence) are compared to pragmatic skills (principle of cooperation and editing tasks). For this, forty recordings transcribed in CHAT format (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts) were taken into account. Twenty of them came from speakers with Asperger syndrome, and the other twenty, from speakers without this disorder. The results of this analysis reinforce the starting point of the paper, according to which there would be clear dissonances between the structural abilities of language and the communicative ones. Finally, with the ambition to reach a greater comprehension about communication disorders, particularly about Asperger syndrome, this research seeks an interdisciplinary connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the functions played by interjections in sermons of the eighteenth century, which sole purpose was preaching from the pulpit. Rhetorical speech finds in the oral tradition its construction model. Hence the frequency of this element of pragmatic significance in sermons: the interjection, among other linguistic elements that characterize this oral genre, becomes an index of communicative interchange between the two interlocutors of the speech: preacher and auditorium. It intensifies the interactional dimension of the act of enunciation. The high presence of expressions that contains interjections in texts from the eighteenth century should be in relation to the social context at that time and the functional tone of the homily, essentially admonishing and moralizing. In the third part of the present study the most used primary interjections are compiled and exemplified their basic discoursal functions: attitudinal, interaccional and phatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe a version of the CHAT (Codes for the Human Analysis of Transcripts) transcription format developed with the purpose of enabling open-access to the PerLA corpus of language pathologies through the Talkbank International Database. In doing so, adapting PerLA to a transcription and coding format compatible with CLAN (Computerized Language ANalysis) software for automatic language analysis was required. However, CHAT conventions are not compulsory, but they allow for a wide range of variations depending on the nature of data, the scope of the study for which the data have been collected, and the kind of phenomena that are considered relevant for coding. The adaptation offered here has been envisaged to allow the transcription and coding of data showing a wide variety of language and communication disorders, in order to carry out further studies from a pragmatic perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]