Laury2021
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Laury2021 |
| Author(s) | Ritva Laury |
| Title | Definitely indefinite: Negotiating intersubjective common ground in everyday interaction in Finnish |
| Editor(s) | Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anss |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Intersubjetivity, Conversation analysis |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 41-60 |
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| Book title | Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction |
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Abstract
This chapter concerns expressions which seem internally contradictory because they consist of both a recognitional and a non-recognitional element. They contain both the Finnish demonstrative se ‘that, the’, a recognitional, as in se ihminen ‘that/the person’, and one of the indefinite determiners yksi ‘one’, semmonen ‘such’, and joku ‘some’, all of which are non-recognitionals, resulting in expressions such as se joku ihminen ‘that/the some person’. The chapter shows that each of these expressions has its own home environment and expresses a distinct epistemic stance. The main findings are that these expressions constitute a fine-grained resource for the negotiation of relative epistemic status and are tools for building intersubjective common ground in interaction.
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