Weatehrall2011

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Weatehrall2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key Weatehrall2011
Author(s) Ann Weatherall
Title 'I don’t know' as a pre-positioned hedge
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Tag(s) Discursive Psychology, Epistemics
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Year 2011
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 44
Number 4
Pages 317–337
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2011.619310
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Abstract

The present article reports on a study of a previously underexamined type of I don't know in everyday talk. The targets were all in first position and were syntactically complete utterances that were prepositioned or preliminary to a next thing within a turn. A core of 32 instances was drawn from a much larger collection of I don't knows taken from New Zealand, British, and American English corpora. The target I don't knows were preliminary to two broad categories of actions—first assessments and approximations. The findings suggest the target I don't knows function as a prepositioned hedge—a forward-looking stance marker displaying that the speaker is not fully committed to what follows in their turn of talk

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