Constructions vs. lexical items as sources of complex meanings

Deppermann, Arnulf

doi:10.1515/9783110229080.88

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“…. Furthermore, "I don't know"-constructions can convey a disaffiliative stance, such as criticism (Deppermann 2011) or resistance (Hutchby 2002). In turn-final position it may serve to mark the answer to a question as not fulfilling the conditional relevance set up by the question .…”

Section: Forgetfulness In Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for forgetfulness in dementia interaction

Svennevig

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2019

Linguistics Vanguard

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The article identifies and describes conversational practices used by persons with dementia and their interlocutors to account for the former’s lack of knowledge in cases where information about their personal experiences is made relevant and expectable at a specific point in a conversation. First, they may seek to normalize the lack of knowledge by claiming that it would be difficult for anyone to know or remember the information in question. Second, they may exceptionalize it by claiming that their cognitive or communicative impairment incidentally and temporarily disables them from accessing the information. Finally, they may justify their failure to provide information by claiming that it is not important, relevant or expectable that they should know. Such accounts dissociate the social character from the forgetfulness and thus constitute an attempt to avoid the loss of face associated with not remembering personal experiences. By specifying these conversational accounting practices, the study thus adds to existing knowledge on how participants handle the social sensitivity of typical dementia symptoms.

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Section: Forgetfulness In Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for forgetfulness in dementia interaction

Svennevig

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2019

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“…It has been shown, for example, that the 'main clause' of what is classically considered a bi-clausal pattern (e.g., involving a complement-taking-predicate) often occurs in talk-in-interaction as a routinized "fragment" (e.g., English I dunno), that is, a grammaticized marker of epistemic/evidential/evaluative stance. 3 'Main clauses' have also been shown to function as projecting constructions, or even as prototypical discourse markers (Maschler, 2009), that foreshadow certain types of action-or turn-trajectories to come (Thompson, 2002;Maschler, 2012Maschler, , 2017Pekarek Doehler, 2016;Polak-Yitzhaki & Maschler, 2016;Deppermann, 2011;Keevallik, 2011, Pekarek Doehler, forthcoming). For instance, French je sais pas 'I don't know', in its morphophonologically reduced forms chais pas or ch'pas, can be used as a device for projecting a dispreferred response, as illustrated in excerpt 1.…”

Section: Complex Syntax-in-interactionmentioning

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Complex syntax-in-interaction

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Studies in Language and Social Interaction

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“…Constructions scrutinized so far include turn-taking (Selting 2005), lexical categories with discourse function, such as discourse particles (Fischer 2006, Alm 2007, modal particles (Alm 2007;Imo 2008), discourse markers (Imo 2012), and adverbs (Imo 2010a) as well as clause-level constructions, such as garden-path sentences (Imo 2011a, b), verb-first constructions (Auer/ Lindström 2011), relative-clause constructions (Birkner 2008a) and pseudo-cleft constructions (Günthner 2006a). In addition, a number of studies focus on particular verbs (Imo 2007a;Deppermann/ Elstermann 2008;Goschler/Stefanowitsch 2010;Deppermann 2011c) and phenomena specific to spoken discourse, including increments (Auer 2006b, Imo 2011b, interjections (Imo 2009;Reber/Couper-Kuhlen 2010), von-x-her constructions (Bücker 2014), so constructions (Auer 2006b, Imo 2011b, quotative constructions , idiomatic constructions (Birkner 2008b), and verbal humor (Brône 2008(Brône , 2010. (e) Syntactic structures in language acquisition.…”

Section: Major Strands Of Constructional Approaches To Syntactic Strumentioning

confidence: 99%