Hsieh2017

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Hsieh2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hsieh2017
Author(s) Chen-Yu Chester Hsieh
Title From Receipt of Information to Management of Interaction: The Use of Zheyangzi as a Response Token in Chinese Conversation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, Chinese, Mandarin, Particle
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Year 2017
Language English
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Journal Concentric: Studies in Linguistics
Volume 43
Number 2
Pages 87-118
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DOI 10.6241/concentric.ling.43.2.04
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Abstract

The current study aims to investigate the information receipt particle zheyangzi (ZYZ) in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Adopting an Interactional Linguistics approach to spoken data, I show that ZYZ tends to co-occur with particular preceding and suffixing particles within the same turn and that the use of particles may to some extent influence the design of the next turn. Moreover, I argue that ZYZ serves three major interactional functions other than information receipting and that the sequential environment in which it is deployed exerts a significant influence over how the particle is understood and reacted to by interlocutors. The meaning of ZYZ is thus dynamically negotiated and co-constructed through talk-in-interaction.

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