Beach1993
Beach1993 | |
---|---|
BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Beach1993 |
Author(s) | Wayne A. Beach |
Title | Transitional regularities for 'casual' “Okay” usages |
Editor(s) | |
Tag(s) | EMCA |
Publisher | |
Year | 1993 |
Language | |
City | |
Month | |
Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
Volume | 19 |
Number | 4 |
Pages | 325–352 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1016/0378-2166(93)90092-4 |
ISBN | |
Organization | |
Institution | |
School | |
Type | |
Edition | |
Series | |
Howpublished | |
Book title | |
Chapter |
Abstract
An understanding of “Okay” usages in conversation requires analytic considerations extending beyond free-standing and non-continuative deployments. Relying on previous findings on how recipients and current speakers organize such activities as phone openings and closings, the present analysis addresses a wider variety of interactional environments in establishing certain predominant and thus fundamental features. Those addressed herein include how recipients and current speakers rely on “Okay” pivotally, at or near transition/opportunity spaces: Decidedly in response to prior talk, yet also in transitionally relevant (‘state of readiness’) ways via shifts/ movements to next-positioned matters. Though recipients or current speakers may (in next turn) treat prior “Okay” usages as non-continuative, and/or move to sequentially delete the actions “Okay” was taken to be projecting (i.e., ‘Okay + [fuller turn]’), just what participants appear to be prefacing or setting-up via “Okay” is recurrently (and eventually) apparent.
Notes