Oh2005

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Oh2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Oh2005
Author(s) Sun-Young Oh
Title English zero anaphora as an interactional resource
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Tag(s) EMCA, Anaphora, Reference
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Year 2005
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 38
Number 2
Pages 267–302
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DOI 10.1207/s15327973rlsi3803_3
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Abstract

This study investigates English speakers' practices of employing zero anaphora (or omission of an overt reference term) in ordinary conversations, with special reference to the kind of interactional work that they accomplish by the practice. The findings demonstrate that unlike previously held assumptions, zero anaphora may be systematically deployed by English speakers to achieve certain interactional functions, for example, marking the current talk as a second or resaying or displaying the secondary level of the action being done by the current talk. This article thus establishes zero anaphora, which has been frequently treated as an accident, or disorderly product of a casual way of speaking, as a serious resource in the construction of conversational interaction by English speakers.

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