Morita2005

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Morita2005
BibType BOOK
Key Morita2005
Author(s) Emi Morita
Title Negotiation of Contingent talk: The Japanese Interactional Particles ne and sa
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Tag(s) EMCA, Japanese, Negotiations, Particle
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2005
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City Amsterdam
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.137
ISBN 9789027294302
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Abstract

Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account for the ubiquity of such particles in Japanese talk.

The study argues that such particles are important resources for Japanese speakers to negotiate and fine-tune particular conversational contingencies within the emerging sequential environment of the talk. Various examples show that prospective alignment and the negotiability of conversational next action are ever-present issues for Japanese conversationalists and are handled at the precise moment of their relevance through interlocutors’ deployment of ne and sa. This study thus adds to the literature on Japanese conversational interaction a novel understanding of particle use in its synthesis of functional linguistics and conversation analysis.

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