Persson2005b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Persson2005b |
| Author(s) | Rasmus Persson |
| Title | Indexing one’s own previous action as inadequate: On ah-prefaced repeats as receipt tokens in French talk-in-interaction |
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| Tag(s) | Conversation analysis, Intersubjectivity, Repetitions, Needs Review |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Journal | Language in Society |
| Volume | 44 |
| Number | 4 |
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| DOI | Indexing one ’ s own previous action as inadequate: On ah -prefaced repeats as receipt tokens in French talk-in-interaction RASMUS PERSSON Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom French Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University, P.O. Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden rasmus.persson@york.ac.uk ABSTRACT This article considers a practice in French talk-in-interaction, formally char- acterized as other-repeats prefaced by the change-of-state particle ah . The target practice accomplishes a claim of receipt, while at the same time index- ing as somehow inadequate a previous turn by the receipt speaker. Evidence drawn upon includes: (i) the sequential locations of the examined phenome- non; (ii) ensuing developments of the sequence, wherein the indexed inade- quacy is more explicitly acknowledged; and (iii) the discriminability of the focal practice with respect to alternative practices. Two phonetically distin- guished variants of the practice, and their respective sequential projections ( ‘ problematizing ’ topicalization or ‘ accepting ’ closure), are discussed. This article contributes to the study of how intersubjectivity is managed and ad- ministered by participants, and to research on the management of account- ability for producing ‘ adequate ’ turns and actions. Finally, it addresses ongoing discussions concerning the analysis of multiple actions ( fi rst- and second-order) conveyed simultaneously in single turns. (French, talk-in- interaction, repetition, receipts, particles, indexicality, intersubjectivity, prosody, phonetics) * INTRODUCTION This article deals with a practice in French talk-in-interaction that is formally char- acterized as other-repetition prefaced by the particle ah . This particle has often been treated as comparable to English oh in many of its uses, including those where it constitutes or forms part of a receipt. Although the linguistic form [ ah þ other- repeat] is occasionally used for other purposes in other sequential positions, 1 it overwhelmingly appears in postexpansions. In this position, ah -prefaced repeats can be characterized as doing the work of a receipt, speci fi cally receipt of turns © Cambridge University Press, 2015 0047-4045/15 $15.00 497 Language in Society 44 , 497 – 524. |
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Abstract
This article considers a practice in French talk-in-interaction, formally characterized as other-repeats prefaced by the change-of-state particle ah. The target practice accomplishes a claim of receipt, while at the same time indexing as somehow inadequate a previous turn by the receipt speaker. Evidence drawn upon includes: (i) the sequential locations of the examined phenomenon; (ii) ensuing developments of the sequence, wherein the indexed inadequacy is more explicitly acknowledged; and (iii) the discriminability of the focal practice with respect to alternative practices. Two phonetically distinguished variants of the practice, and their respective sequential projections (‘problematizing’topicalization or‘accepting’closure), are discussed. This article contributes to the study of how intersubjectivity is managed and administered by participants, and to research on the management of accountability for producing ‘adequate’turns and actions. Finally, it addresses ongoing discussions concerning the analysis of multiple actions (first- and second-order) conveyed simultaneously in single turns.
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