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Heritage2015a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Heritage2015a
Author(s) John Heritage
Title Well-prefaced turns in English conversation: A conversation analytic perspective
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Tag(s) EMCA, conversation analysis, discourse particles, turn-initial position, well
Publisher Elsevier B.V.
Year 2015
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 88
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Pages 88–104
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.08.008
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Abstract

This paper presents evidence that the discourse particle well functions as a generalized procedural alert that the turn it prefaces will privilege its speaker's perspectives, interests or project relative to the expectations for action established in the prior turn or sequence. Using data from a corpus of 748 well-prefaced turns, a range of contexts that enrich and specify this function are identified including (i) responses to questions, (ii) topic shift and topic closure, and (iii)'my side' corroborations of descriptions and judgments.

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