Epistemic stance in English conversation : a description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think / / Elise Karkkainen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963835803321
• Autore: Kärkkäinen Elise
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003
• ISBN: 9786612160745; 9781282160743; 1282160745; 9789027295941; 9027295948
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 115
• Classificazione: HF 350
• Disciplina: 420/.1/41
• Soggetti: English language - Discourse analysis; English language - Spoken English; Conversation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Epistemic Stance in English Conversation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Introduction -- 1.1. Theoretical orientation -- 1.2. Objectives and organization of the study -- 1.3. Database and transcription: Principles and conventions -- 1.4. Conversation analysis: Four types of interactional organization -- 1.5. Orientation of the present study -- Notes -- Expression of epistemic stance -- 2.1. Epistemic modality: Semantic definition -- 2.2. Epistemic stance: Interactional approaches -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Notes -- The intonation unit as analytical unit -- 3.1. Cognitive approaches to IUs -- 3.2. IUs as interactional units -- 3.3. Conclusion -- Note -- Routinization of stance marking at the linguistic and interactional level -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Grammatical classes and syntactic types -- 4.2.1. Lexical verbs: Epistemic phrases -- 4.2.2. Adverbs -- 4.2.3. Modal auxiliaries and quasi-auxiliaries -- 4.2.4. Adjectives and nouns -- 4.2.5. Participial forms -- 4.2.6. Conclusion -- 4.3. Semantic meanings expressed -- 4.4. Position of epistemic markers in intonation units -- 4.4.1. IU-; initial position -- 4.4.2. IU-medial position -- 4.4.3. IU-final position -- 4.4.4. Separate IUs -- 4.4.5. Summary of intonation unit positions -- 4.5. Position within intonation unit sequence and in conversational turns -- 4.5.1. Finality vs. lack of finality of what precedes -- speaker change or not? -- 4.5.2. Turn-internal vs. constituting a turn -- 4.5.3. Summary of turn positions -- 4.6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Stance-taking as an interactive activity -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Discourse profile of I think -- 5.3. Semantic definitions and previous pragmatic research on I think -- 5.4. Functions of pre-positioned I think -- 5.4.1. Functions of IU-initial I think.; 5.4.2. Functions of I think as a separate IU: On-line planning -- 5.4.3. Summary of pre-positioned I think -- 5.5. Functions of post-positioned I think -- 5.5.1. Functions of I think as a separate IU: Signaling completion and pursuing a response -- 5.5.2. Summary of post-positioned I think -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 5.6.1. Functions of I think in discourse -- 5.6.2. I think as a discourse marker -- Notes -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Symbols used in transcription -- Name index -- Subject index -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers' utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.