The discourse functions of OK

Condon, Sherri L.

doi:10.1515/semi.1986.60.1-2.73

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“…It is used to bracket these parts (Goffman, 1981;Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975). People engaged in discussions often start and end their interactions using okay (Condon, 1986(Condon, , 2001. They also use okay to link large phases in a decision-making process (Condon, 1986(Condon, , 2001 or an institutional encounter (Antaki, Houtkoop-Steenstra, & Rapley, 2000;Merritt, 1984), or to mark completion of a longer turn at talk (Guthrie, 1997).…”

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“…People engaged in discussions often start and end their interactions using okay (Condon, 1986(Condon, , 2001. They also use okay to link large phases in a decision-making process (Condon, 1986(Condon, , 2001 or an institutional encounter (Antaki, Houtkoop-Steenstra, & Rapley, 2000;Merritt, 1984), or to mark completion of a longer turn at talk (Guthrie, 1997). And, as Hoyle (1994) has shown, boys playing the role of sportscasters describing a basketball game use okay to switch between levels of pretense-in moving from commentary to a pretend interview with a player, or the reverse.…”

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Navigating joint projects with dialogue

2003

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Dialogue has its origins in joint activities, which it serves to coordinate. Joint activities, in turn, usually emerge in hierarchically nested projects and subprojects. We propose that participants use dialogue to coordinate two kinds of transitions in these joint projects: vertical transitions, or entering and exiting joint projects; and horizontal transitions, or continuing within joint projects. The participants help signal these transitions with project markers, words such as uh-huh, m-hm, yeah, okay, or all right. These words have been studied mainly as signals of listener feedback (back-channel signals) or turn-taking devices (acknowledgment tokens). We present evidence from several types of well-defined tasks that they are also part of a system of contrasts specialized for navigating joint projects. Uh-huh, m-hm and yeah are used for horizontal transitions, and okay and all right for vertical transitions.

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2003

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“…Most okays in this corpus are interjections, not adjectives (e.g., "I'm okay"). (For the disputed etymology of okay, see Condon, 1986;Heflin, 1962.) And (4) All right and All righty.…”

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Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Bangerter

2003

Cognitive Science

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“…Face-to-face interactions were transcribed from audio recordings into computer files using a set of conventions established in a training manual (Condon & Cech, 1992 The coding system includes categories for request routines and a decision routine involving 3 acts or functions (Condon, 1986, Condon & (~ech, 1996a. We believe that the decision routine observed in the interactions instantiates a more general schema for decision-making that may be routinized in various ways.…”

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Measuring conformity to discourse routines in decision-making interactions

Condon

Čech

Edwards

1999

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics -

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In an effort to develop measures of discourse level management strategies, this study examines a measure of the degree to which decisionmaking interactions consist of sequences of utterance functions that are linked in a decisionmaking routine. The measure is applied to 100 dyadic interactions elicited in both face-to-face and computer-mediated environments with systematic variation of task complexity and message-window size. Every utterance in the interactions is coded according to a system that identifies decision-makmg functions and other routine functions of utterances. Markov analyses of the coded utterances make it possible to measure the relative fi'equencies with which sequences of 2 and 3 utterances trace a path in a Markov model of the decision routine. These proportions suggest that interactions in all conditions adhere to the model, although we find greater conformity in the computer-mediated environments, which is probably due to increased processing and attmfional demands for greater efficiency, The results suggest that measures based on Markov analyses of coded interactions can provide useful measures for comparing discourse level properties, for correlating discourse features with other textual features, and for analyses of discourse management strategies.

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The discourse functions of OK

Cited by 76 publications

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Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Measuring conformity to discourse routines in decision-making interactions

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