Nurmikari2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Nurmikari2023 |
| Author(s) | Helena Nurmikari |
| Title | The Finnish anteeks(i) mitä ‘sorry what’ as a resource for expressing affect on Twitter |
| Editor(s) | Aino Koivisto, Heidi Vepsäläinen, Mikko T. Virtanen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Twitter, Finnish |
| Publisher | Finnish Literature Society |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | Helsinki |
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| Pages | 148–169 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.21435/sflin.22 |
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| Book title | Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction: Practices, Resources, and Affordances |
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Abstract
The chapter deals with the use of a Finnish open-class repair initiator, anteeks(i) mitä (lit. ‘sorry what’), which consists of an apology lexeme anteeks(i) and the question word mitä. The study data comprises technology-mediated, written interactions on Twitter, which are public. The main approach of the study is Digital Conversation Analysis. The study adds to previous conversation analytical studies on repair and affect, which have mainly focused on spoken interactions. Previous research on Finnish spoken interactions has mentioned anteeks(i) mitä but not yet studied it in any detail.
The study shows that anteeks(i) mitä can be used in different sequential positions. The expression is mainly used as part of a longer tweet, either as an initial element in a responsive tweet or as a hashtag, #anteeks(i)mitä, which is usually situated towards the end of the tweet. It can also be used in a similar sequential position to that in spoken language, functioning as an open-class repair initiator. I argue that, regardless of its position or of whether it is written as a hashtag, in most cases, anteeks(i) mitä expresses affective stance of astonishment and indicates a problem in accepting something prior. It can be a cue and stance marker for displaying affiliation or disaffiliation with a previous tweet, or an evaluation in an opening tweet that deals with daily online news topics or events on a tv show, for example.
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