Bolden2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Bolden2010 |
| Author(s) | Galina B. Bolden |
| Title | "Articulating the unsaid" via and-prefaced formulations of others' talk |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Affiliation, Confirmation requests, Discourse Markers, Formulations, Repair |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 12 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 5-32 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445609346770 |
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Abstract
This article provides a conversation analytic description of a previously unstudied conversational action: ‘articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of other people’s talk. Contributing to the extant research on formulations and on interactional functions of discourse markers, the article shows that and-prefaced formulations accomplish a distinct conversational action that has the following features: these formulations are assertions about the addressee’s domain of knowledge that perform a repair operation in the form of a request for confirmation; they articulate a ‘missing’ element of the addressee’s preceding talk (which is, typically, an extended informing turn); what is being formulated is claimably inferable from the prior talk; moreover, such formulations extend the addressee’s course of action on his/her behalf. The article describes compositional and sequential features of and-prefaced formulations and how they shape interactional trajectories of in-progress courses of action.
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