Golato2018
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Golato2018 |
| Author(s) | Andrea Golato |
| Title | Turn-initial naja in German |
| Editor(s) | Marja-Leena Sorjonen, John Heritage |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, affiliation, alignment, German, continuation, resumption, response token, side sequence, sequence organization, topic attrition, topic |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 413-444 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.14gol |
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| Book title | Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-Initial Particles Across Languages |
| Chapter | 14 |
Abstract
This paper investigates the German token naja in turn initial position in everyday conversation. The paper makes the argument that naja is produced in situations when speakers are negotiating some form of break with prior utterances in the interaction:1 Prior research has indicated that in second-pair parts, naja prefaces disagreements. The current paper shows that naja is also used in initiating actions that serve to return to a previous sequence that was not brought to completion due to actions by the coparticipant(s) or outsiders of the interaction. In addition, naja is used in third position turns in which speakers are backing down from a previously held position. In initiating actions and third positions, naja serves to indicate the break and simultaneously initiates actions to overcome it. The findings hold both for cases in which subsequent talk is prosodically integrated to naja and the cases in which naja is not prosodically integrated to the subsequent talk.
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