Negotiation of contingent talk : the Japanese interactional particles ne and sa / Emi Morita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morita, Emi.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 137.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. v. 137

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Particles.

Japanese language.

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Publishing, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account for the ubiquity of such particles in Japanese talk.The study argues that such particles are important resources for Japanese speakers to negotiate and fine-tune particular conversational contingencies within the emerging sequential environment of the talk. Various examples show that prospective alignment and the negotiability of conversational next action are ever-present issues for Japanese conversationalists and are handled at the precise moment of their relevance through interlocutors' deployment of ne and sa. This study thus adds to the literature on Japanese conversational interaction a novel understanding of particle use in its synthesis of functional linguistics and conversation analysis.

Contents:

Negotiation of Contingent Talk

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Transcript conventions

Abbreviations used in the interlinear gloss

Introduction

1.1. Phenomena

1.2. Theoretical framework

1.2.1. Previous studies of particles and considerations of terminology

1.2.2. Pragmatics and Japanese interactional particles

1.2.3. Functional Linguistics to Interactional Linguistics

1.2.4. Conversation Analysis

1.3. Objectives

1.4. Data

1.5. Organization of the study

Notes

Review of previous research

2.1. Final particles vs. insertion particles

2.2. Syntagmatic analysis

2.3. Association with gender

2.4. Association with speech style

2.5. Association with modality

2.6. Cognitive approaches

2.7. Indexicality

2.8. Intonation

2.9. An interactional perspective

2.10. Summary of Chapter 2

Interactionally-relevant units

3.1. Do ``final particles'' actually occur at final positions?

3.1.1. ``Sentence-final'' position vs. ``sentence-internal'' position

3.1.2. Beyond the sentential notion of interactional particles

3.1.3. Turn-final vs. turn-internal use

3.2. What kind of unit is being made relevant by these particles?

3.2.1. Intonation units

3.2.2. Pragmatic completion points

3.2.3. Interactionally-relevant units

3.3. Summary of Chapter 3

Interactional particle ne

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Alignment in action

4.3. Ne in action initiation

4.3.1. Turn-initial position of initiating an action

4.3.2. Ne with ``pre-starts''

4.3.3. How ne subserves to elicit a specific action

4.3.4. Indication of ne-speakers' interactional concerns as local pragmatic work

4.4. Ne in assessment

4.4.1. Obligatory marking with ne

4.5. Ne in other responsive positions.

4.6. Ne in questions

4.6.1. Cases with the question marker ka plus the interactional particle ne

4.7. Ne in the third position of question sequences

4.8. Summary of Chapter 4

4.9. Conclusion

Interactional particle sa

5.1. Introduction

5.1.1. Previous studies of sa

5.1.2. Negotiability of the talk's elements

5.2. Prospective non-negotiability in actions

5.3. Sa in disjunctive actions

5.3.1. Marking onset of different phases in activity

5.3.2. Marking a topic change

5.3.3. ``Unilateral departure''

5.4. Prospective non-negotiability of other kinds of moves

5.4.1. Temporarily shifting the focal referent as a prospective non-negotiable move

5.4.2. Prospective non-negotiability in the initiation of assessment

5.5. Repetitive use of sa in narratives

5.6. Summary of Chapter 5

Concluding remarks

6.1. The notion of the unit in Japanese talk

6.2. Particularized functions

6.3. Learning to use interactional particles

6.4. Interactional particles and speech style

6.5. Towards a better understanding of the practices of social order

6.6. Conclusion

References

Index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156595

9781282156593

1282156594

9789027294302

9027294305

OCLC:

84683788