Couper-Kuhlen2021

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Couper-Kuhlen2021
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Couper-Kuhlen2021
Author(s) Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja Etelämäki, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Title Directive turn design and intersubjectivity
Editor(s) Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä, Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Tag(s) EMCA, Intersubjectivity, Conversation analysis
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2021
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Pages 61-80
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Book title Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction
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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss turn design as a locus of intersubjectivity. We focus on two types of directives in Finnish interactions, turns formatted with second-person imperative and turns that contain zero person. Neither of these turn designs contains a separate subject phrase explicating the person(s) referred to, nor does either indicate when the action nominated is to take place. We study the kinds of assumptions these two turn designs make and present as shared, and the interplay of the assumptions in relation to the sequential and activity context of the turn. The design of turns and actions in sequences of interaction thus allows us to see intersubjectivity at work, even when repair does not take place.

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