Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization

• Pseudoclefts recur in Swedish everyday and institutional interaction. There are both integrated biclausal clefts non-integrated variants. Typical pseudoclefts frame a contribution with speaker stance. attract focus to shifts the progression of discourse. contribute creating discourse, used by expert participant. In this study we present an interactional linguistic analysis based on audio video recordings conversations, resulting collection 100 instances. is variation degree which pseudo-cleft constructions syntactically integrated: from fully (cleft clause + copula verb main clause) non-copular variants further cleft-clause followed indeterminate stretch The construction’s functional properties have do projecting actions generating discourse events, e.g. showing that initial part has important turn-projecting function disclosing speaker’s stance towards issue at hand. Pseudo-cleft recurrently employed for marking shifts, positive negative Prosodic organization brings unity overall construction visual cues can be convey significant processing activity during production pseudocleft. Our data interaction shows heavily rather than lay participant, thus contributing creation roles social order.