Tanaka2005
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| Author(s) | Hiroko Tanaka |
| Title | Grammar and the "Timing" of Social Action: Word Order and Preference Organization in
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, grammar and interaction, Japanese grammar, preference, ellipsis, word order, canonical word order, projectability |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 34 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 389-430 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0047404505050141 |
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Abstract
This article explores the interconnection between grammar and the perfor-
mance of preferred and dispreferred responses in Japanese. As is well known, dispreferred format turns are structurally more complex than preferred for- mat turns, regularly delayed, accompanied by prefaces and accounts, miti- gated, or made indirect. Owing to the flexibility of Japanese grammar, participants have expanded intra-turn capacity to maximize or minimize compliance with such formats. On one extreme, a dispreferred action can be massively delayed until near the turn-ending through opting for so- called canonical predicate-final word order and minimization of ellipsis. On the other extreme, a preferred action can be expedited to the very open- ing of a turn through non-canonical predicate-initial word order by taking advantage of word order variability and ellipsis. Such syntactic practices are interactionally managed for calibrating the timing of social action. It emerges that the canonical word order - assumed to be the generically un- marked alternative - is actually optimally tailored for the implementation of marked (dispreferred) responses, as opposed to a non-canonical word order for unmarked (preferred) responses, in the given sequential environment.
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