Keevallik2010g

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Keevallik2010g
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Keevallik2010g
Author(s) Leelo Keevallik
Title The interactional profile of a placeholder: the Estonian demonstrative see
Editor(s) Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis, Margaret Maclagan
Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, Demonstrative, Estonian
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2010
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Journal
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Pages 139–172
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/tsl.93.07kee
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Institution
School
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Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders
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Abstract

Fillers are used to delay the next due unit in talk. The study argues that there may be interpersonal advantages in the delay of key items in turns, such as easing the processing for the recipient, announcing structural boundaries in conversation, and displaying orientation to the sensitiveness of the action. The subject matter of the paper is the Estonian pronoun and demonstrative see, which is also used as a placeholder. See projects a noun as the next due item and locally organizes the actions of the participants so that either the speaker or the recipient will produce it. Its particular interactional affordance is one of enabling the ordering of elements of noun phrases in ways that breach the rules of grammatical well-formedness.

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