Sugiura2017

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Sugiura2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sugiura2017
Author(s) Hideyuki Sugiura
Title Expressing an alternative view from second position: Reversed polarity questions in everyday Japanese conversation
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Tag(s) EMCA, assessments, conversation analysis, epistemic access, Japanese, reversed polarity question
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Year 2017
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 19
Number 3
Pages 291-313
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DOI 10.1177/1461445617701813
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Abstract

This conversation-analytic study examines a type of action accomplished through a reversed polarity question (RPQ) responding to initial assessments in everyday Japanese conversation. This study demonstrates that RPQs deployed in this specific position express alternative views to initial assessments by appealing to participants’ common sense or knowledge and index participants’ epistemic symmetry over a particular assessable. These RPQs do not simply convey the speakers’ disagreement with initial assessments, however, but are designed to be situated as ‘new’ first assessments by triggering the conditional relevance of the question–answer adjacency pair, thereby inviting agreement from the prior speaker. This study also reveals two commonly observable practices by which the speaker secures the participants’ epistemic symmetry over a particular assessable and thereby creates the basis for producing RPQs. It is further shown that these two practices can affect the strength of disaffiliation expressed by the RPQ.

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