Oh2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Sun-Young Oh |
| Title | Invoking categories through co-present person reference: The case of Korean conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Reference, Demonstratives, Membership categories, Korean |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 5 |
| Pages | 1219–1242 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.019 |
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Abstract
This article uses a conversation analytic framework to describe Korean speakers’ practices of co-present person reference by means of quasi-pronouns. In referring to a co-present party in a conversation, Korean speakers make use of demonstrative-based quasi-pronouns. While the proximal demonstrative is the default form to be used for this purpose, speakers often deploy the distinction between proximal versus distal demonstrative-based quasi-pronouns in order to display their category membership with respect to the referent (and the recipient), who is co-present in the interaction. Specifically, speakers refer to a co-present party with a distal demonstrative ce (‘that’)-based quasi-pronoun instead of a proximal demonstrative i (‘this’)-based one when they try to endow the referent with a different category membership than themselves, without respect to the actual physical distance between them. This study provides an interactional motivation for the observed referential practices, and also supports the stance that the characterizations of persons should be grounded in the participants’ own orientations in the interaction.
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