When personal is interpersonal. Organizing interaction with deictically open personal constructions in Finnish everyday conversation

Suomalainen, Karita; Varjo, Mikael

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.003

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“…Contemporary single-language studies beyond English cover mainly Northern European national languages, and, as expected, research on Finnish conversation continues to stand out. Topics studied in recent years among speakers of Finnish include invitations over telephone calls (Routarinne & Tainio 2018); uptake in repair sequences (Koivisto 2019); reformulation of a prior turn (Sorjonen 2018); the interactional usages of second person (Suomalainen & Varjo 2020); conversational usages of "think" and "know" verbs (Laury & Helasvuo 2020); syntactically insubordinate recruitment formats (Lindström et al 2019); "response cries" and alignment (Pehkonen 2020); functions of other-repetition (Stevanovic et al 2020a); conversation in a mental health treatment setting (Stevanovic et al 2020b); and openings and closings in technologically mediated encounters (Ilomäki & Ruusuvuori 2020), an increasingly relevant area in current times when virtual conversations are taking the place of face-to-face meetings.…”

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Conversation and Culture

Floyd

2021

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Conversation analysis is a method for the systematic study of interaction in terms of a sequential turn-taking system. Research in conversation analysis has traditionally focused on speakers of English, and it is still unclear to what extent the system observed in that research applies to conversation more generally around the world. However, as this method is now being applied to conversation in a broader range of languages, it is increasingly possible to address questions about the nature of interactional diversity across different speech communities. The approach of pragmatic typology first applies sequential analysis to conversation from different speech communities and then compares interactional patterns in ways analogous to how traditional linguistic typology compares morphosyntax. This article discusses contemporary literature in pragmatic typology, including single-language studies and multilanguage comparisons reflecting both qualitative and quantitative methods. This research finds that microanalysis of face-to-face interaction can identify both universal trends and culture-specific interactional tendencies. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 50 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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