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|Abstract=This article explores the interconnection between grammar and the performance of preferred and dispreferred responses in Japanese. As is well known, dispreferred format turns are structurally more complex than preferred format turns, regularly delayed, accompanied by prefaces and accounts, mitigated, or made indirect. Owing to the flexibility of Japanese grammar, participants have expanded intra-turn capacity to maximize or minimize compliance with such formats. On one extreme, a dispreferred action can be massively delayed until near the turn-ending through opting for so-called canonical predicate-final word order and minimization of ellipsis. On the other extreme, a preferred action can be expedited to the very opening of a turn through non-canonical predicate-initial word order by taking advantage of word order variability and ellipsis. Such syntactic practices are interactionally managed for calibrating the timing of social action. It emerges that the canonical word order assumed to be the generically unmarked alternative is actually optimally tailored for the implementation of marked (dispreferred) responses, as opposed to a non-canonical word order for unmarked (preferred) responses, in the given sequential environment.
mance of preferred and dispreferred responses in Japanese. As is well known,
 
dispreferred format turns are structurally more complex than preferred for-
 
mat turns, regularly delayed, accompanied by prefaces and accounts, miti-
 
gated, or made indirect. Owing to the flexibility of Japanese grammar,
 
participants have expanded intra-turn capacity to maximize or minimize
 
compliance with such formats. On one extreme, a dispreferred action can
 
be massively delayed until near the turn-ending through opting for so-
 
called canonical predicate-final word order and minimization of ellipsis.
 
On the other extreme, a preferred action can be expedited to the very open-
 
ing of a turn through non-canonical predicate-initial word order by taking
 
advantage of word order variability and ellipsis. Such syntactic practices
 
are interactionally managed for calibrating the timing of social action. It
 
emerges that the canonical word order - assumed to be the generically un-
 
marked alternative - is actually optimally tailored for the implementation
 
of marked (dispreferred) responses, as opposed to a non-canonical word
 
order for unmarked (preferred) responses, in the given sequential environment.
 
 
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Tanaka2005
BibType ARTICLE
Key Tanaka2005
Author(s) Hiroko Tanaka
Title Grammar and the “timing” of social action: word order and preference organization in Japanese
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, grammar and interaction, Japanese grammar, preference, ellipsis, word order, canonical word order, projectability
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Year 2005
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 34
Number 3
Pages 389–430
URL Link
DOI 10.1017/S0047404505050141
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Abstract

This article explores the interconnection between grammar and the performance of preferred and dispreferred responses in Japanese. As is well known, dispreferred format turns are structurally more complex than preferred format turns, regularly delayed, accompanied by prefaces and accounts, mitigated, or made indirect. Owing to the flexibility of Japanese grammar, participants have expanded intra-turn capacity to maximize or minimize compliance with such formats. On one extreme, a dispreferred action can be massively delayed until near the turn-ending through opting for so-called canonical predicate-final word order and minimization of ellipsis. On the other extreme, a preferred action can be expedited to the very opening of a turn through non-canonical predicate-initial word order by taking advantage of word order variability and ellipsis. Such syntactic practices are interactionally managed for calibrating the timing of social action. It emerges that the canonical word order – assumed to be the generically unmarked alternative – is actually optimally tailored for the implementation of marked (dispreferred) responses, as opposed to a non-canonical word order for unmarked (preferred) responses, in the given sequential environment.

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