Mondada2018g
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Mondada2018g |
| Author(s) | Lorenza Mondada |
| Title | Turn-initial voilà in closings in French: Reaffirming authority and responsibility over the sequence |
| Editor(s) | John Heritage, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 371–412 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.13mon |
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| Book title | Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages |
| Chapter | 12 |
Abstract
French has several ways of responding positively to a previous turn, such as oui, ouais, d’accord, tout à fait, exactement, bien sûr, voilà, etc. This chapter deals with voilà, offering a general overview of its uses in interaction before focusing on voilà in turn-initial position in closing environments. Analyses reveal that voilà is not equally used by all of the participants in social interaction, but rather by speakers whom the co-participants recognize as experts and/or responsible for the on-going activity. Stand-alone voilà achieves sequence closing in unproblematic ways and retrospectively asserts the speaker’s epistemic, organizational and moral authority over the sequence. By contrast, turn-initial voilà often occurs in a context where the co-participants disalign with the projected closing. The use of voilà addresses a possible emerging competition by further expanding the on-going action and thereby controlling possible next sequential slots. In these competitive contexts, stand-alone voilà and turn-initial voilà are used by speakers to re-affirm their authority over the sequence. Turn-initial voilà followed by a new turn constructional unit (TCU) orients to the possible progressivity of the activity, whereas turn-initial voilà with a continuation within the same TCU expands the on-going sequence and creates new opportunities for the co-participants to realign with it.
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