Bolden2010

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Bolden2010
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bolden2010
Author(s) Galina B. Bolden
Title “Articulating the unsaid” via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Affiliation, Confirmation requests, Discourse Markers, Formulations, Repair, Allusion
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Year 2010
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 12
Number 1
Pages 5–32
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DOI 10.1177/1461445609346770
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Abstract

This article provides a conversation analytic description of a previously unstudied conversational action: ‘articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of other people’s talk. Contributing to the extant research on formulations and on interactional functions of discourse markers, the article shows that and-prefaced formulations accomplish a distinct conversational action that has the following features: these formulations are assertions about the addressee’s domain of knowledge that perform a repair operation in the form of a request for confirmation; they articulate a ‘missing’ element of the addressee’s preceding talk (which is, typically, an extended informing turn); what is being formulated is claimably inferable from the prior talk; moreover, such formulations extend the addressee’s course of action on his/her behalf. The article describes compositional and sequential features of and-prefaced formulations and how they shape interactional trajectories of in-progress courses of action.

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