Discourse patterns for turn-final conjunctions

Koivisto, Aino

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.05.006

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“…Moreover, Swedish så att can occur utterance-finally as an α-post (see Mulder & Thompson 2008 for a similar use of but in English; for Finnish, see Koivisto 2012). An example is given in extract (7), taken from a moderated discussion with a group of Swedish-speaking high school students in Finland.…”

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Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

Auer

Lindström

2016

Language Sciences

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In this paper, we argue that the suggested mirror-equivalence of 'left-' and 'right-' adjoined or -positioned constituents in syntax is misleading from the point of view of Interactional Linguistics and needs to be replaced by a positionally sensitive grammatical analysis, in which pre-and post-positioning is seen in the context of the sequential unfolding of conversation in time. We show this on the basis of various examples from conversational German and Swedish. Our main empirical focus is on pre-and post-positioned verba sentiendi expressions of the type ich denke… or jag tror (cf. English 'I think'). A quantitative analysis shows that these expressions have an uneven distribution in pre-and post-position, as well as in different discourse genres. In a sequential analysis, we can see a positionally sensitive differentiation with respect to syntactic integration and interactional meaning, especially with reference to the dynamics of stance taking and turn taking.

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Section: 'Conjunctions'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction

Auer

Lindström

2016

Language Sciences

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“…Listener responses included here are backchannel forms such as mm, huh, uhuh , and the polar response tokens yes and no and their variants ( yeah, yep, nope ) as well as fully lexical responses. We exclude syntactic triggers such as interrogative forms, clausal tags (through which response is strongly coerced) and non‐verbal behaviour, as well as turn‐final conjunctions such as and , but and or , which have already been fruitfully investigated (Koivisto ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Vague category markers as turn‐final items in Irish English

2017

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This study uses the Limerick Corpus of Irish English (LCIE), and a sample of the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) to implement a corpus pragmatic approach to the analysis of Irish English by focusing on the organization of turn-taking in two connected, though distinct, varieties of world Englishes, Irish English and British English. The aim of the research is two-pronged: we explore how naturally-occurring conversation is organised in the two varieties for comparative purposes, seeking to understand how confluence in turn-taking is achieved in everyday interactions, as well as examining how the interactional flow is achieved through the manipulation of small, interpersonally loaded items, turn initial and turn final, with the focus here on turn final items.

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“…Speakers deploy grammatical linking devices for specific interactional aims. Recently also the turn-final usage of conjunctions has been scrutinized, demonstrating their capacity to tacitly prompt inferences (Mulder & Thompson 2008;Koivisto 2012). Prepositions such as than can be used alone in a turn with the strategic aim to elicit a specific extension by a prior speaker (Koshik 2002: 291-298;Lerner 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%