Responding in conversation : a study of response particles in Finnish / Marja-Leena Sorjonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorjonen, Marja-Leena.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 70.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finnish language--Particles.

Finnish language.

Interpersonal communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Summary:

This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations. It provides much needed methodological tools for analyzing the use of response particles in languages, while its particular focus is Finnish. The book focuses on two Finnish particles, nii(n) and joo, which in some of their central usages have "yeah" and "yes" as their closest English counterparts. The two particles are discussed in a number of sequential and activity contexts, including their use as answers to yes-no questions and directives, as responses to a stance-taking by the prior speaker, and in the midst of an extended telling by the co-participant. It will be shown how there is a fine-grained division of labor between the particles, having to do with the epistemic and affective character of the talk and the continuation vs. closure-relevance of the activity. The book connects theinteractional usages of the particles with what is known about their historical origins, and in this fashion it is also of interest to linguists doing research on processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization.

Contents:

Responding in Conversation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Background information of the particles joo and niin

Chapter 3: Indexicality,interjections and actions by recipients in interaction

Chapter 4: Responses to yes/no questions

Chapter 5: Responses to directives

Chapter 6: Responses to affiliation-relevant utterances in A-event environments

Chapter 7: Responses to affiliation-relevant utterances concerning a mutually known issue

Chapter 8: Responses to informings and some other usages

Chapter 9: Concluding discussion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

References

Name index

Subject index

the PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161919

9781282161917

1282161911

9789027297457

9027297452

OCLC:

70732752