Wu2018a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Wu2018a |
| Author(s) | Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu |
| Title | Turn design and progression: The use of aiyou in Mandarin conversation |
| Editor(s) | John Heritage, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, particles, conversation analysis, prosody, turn progression, turn design, aiyou, directionality |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 287–314 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.10wu |
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| Book title | Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages |
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Abstract
The temporal character of talk is one fundamental feature of language in situ. As interaction unfolds, participants need to not only monitor the temporal progression of talk toward completion, but also attend to how the current turn ties back to the preceding turns. Whereas such dual-directional consideration is often a latent aspect of turn construction, efforts to clear up possible ambiguity are sometimes in order. This article introduces a Mandarin practice, the aiyou-preface, which seems to be used to just this end, and demonstrates an intimate relationship between the prosodic design of aiyou-preface and the displayed orientation to the intended directionality of the talk. The analysis draws upon a corpus of 35 hours of conversations collected in China.
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