Helisten2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Marika Helisten |
| Title | Resumptions as multimodal achievements in conversational (story)tellings |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Conversational storytelling, Multimodality, Resumption, but, anyway |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 112 |
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| Pages | 1-19 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.01.014 |
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Abstract
This paper investigates resumption as a multimodal achievement within (story)telling sequences in English everyday interaction. Resumption here refers to a particular interactional practice where a speaker returns to his/her telling after its progression was temporarily put on hold in favour of an intervening course of action. Returning to an on-hold course of action poses an interactional problem for interlocutors, because, as has been widely established by conversation analytic research (e.g. Sacks et al., 1974; Schegloff, 2007), each utterance is, by default, built upon and understood in relation to the talk of a just-prior utterance. Resumptions are a solution to a practical participant's problem, as they provide interlocutors with systematic means to make it known to their co-participants that what comes next is not a continuation of just-prior talk or the start of some new course of action, but rather, a return to a previously halted, unfinished course of action. Within the framework of conversation analysis, this study provides a close examination of resumptions in their interactional and sequential context. It focuses on a recurrent linguistic format identified in the data, namely, resumptions prefaced with the discourse markers but and anyway. However, video data reveals that simply focusing on the verbal features of resumptions would provide a somewhat narrow view of how they are accomplished in co-present interaction.
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