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|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation Analysis; Turn-Initial Position; Turn-taking; Second Pair Parts; Stance; Particle; Kishwali;=
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|Year=2009
 
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|Journal=Language in Society
 
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DHondt2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key DHondt2011
Author(s) Sigurd D'hondt
Title Ah-prefacing in Kishwahili second pair parts
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Turn-Initial Position, Turn-taking, Second Pair Parts, Stance, Particle, Kishwali
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Year 2009
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 40
Number 5
Pages 563–590
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404511000686
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Abstract

This article presents a conversation-analytic account of the various usages of the Kiswahili particle ah as it is routinely employed in naturally occurring Kiswahili conversation. Adopting a strategy reminiscent of the one Heritage and others adopted for English oh, it is argued that the seemingly disparate uses of this “language-specific object” represent various context-specific particularizations of a single semantic core. The basic claim is that ah constitutes a response cry that indexes to the other interlocutors the speaker's negative evaluative stance toward a particular issue. In this capacity, it frequently occupies the turn-initial position of a second pair part. Depending on the specifics of the sequential environment, the “object” of the indexed stance is traceable to either the particular item that is being talked about or the action performed in the preceding first. In the former case, the particle is used to demonstrate the speaker's affiliation with the previous speaker. In the latter case, it is used to demonstrate his disaffiliation with the previous speaker.

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