Waring2003
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Hansun Zhang Waring |
| Title | 'Also' as a discourse marker: its use in disjunctive and disaffiliative environments |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Coherence, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Marker, Disagreement, Topic Management |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 5 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 415–436 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456030053006 |
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to demonstrate the intricate operation of the adverb 'also' in actual interaction at a level of detail that dictionary definitions have failed to capture. Using primarily a conversation analytic framework in examining two data corpora, which include a series of graduate seminar discussions and television roundtable discussions, I argue that the semantic features of 'also' are strategically deployed to accomplish complex interactional goals in a disjunctive or disaffiliative environment. In a disjunctive environment, 'also' can be invoked to legitimize one's speaking rights - to get the floor. In a disaffiliative environment, 'also' can be mobilized to either soften or strengthen a disaffiliative action in subsequent talk. These practices of 'also' are accounted for in part by the tensions between coherence and continuation (Linell, 1998; Tracy and Moran, 1983), and in part by the institutional contexts of news media (Dickerson, 2001; Greatbatch, 1992) and graduate seminar (Waring, 2001, 2002 a, b).
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