Tanaka2016
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Tanaka2016 |
Author(s) | Hiroko Tanaka |
Title | Lexico-grammatical structures of agreements with assessments in English conversation: From a Japanese perspective |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Assessment, Agreement, Word order, Formulaic expression, Japanese, Interactional Linguistics |
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Year | 2016 |
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Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
Volume | 100 |
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Pages | 8-24 |
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DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.11.006 |
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Abstract
This study attempts to add to our understanding of the range of lexico-grammatical resources that are used in American and British English (hereafter ‘English’) for building agreements with assessments from the standpoints of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics (e.g. Barth-Weingarten et al., 2010; Couper-Kuhlen and Selting, 1996; Hakulinen and Selting, 2005; Selting and Couper-Kuhlen, 2001; Ochs et al., 1996; Sidnell and Enfield, 2012). A cross-linguistic comparison with Japanese is employed as a heuristic to heighten sensitivity to the ways in which the conversational grammars of the two languages may figure in the construction of agreements in the respective linguistic environments. I begin by highlighting the lexico-grammatical resources commonly used in Japanese to construct agreements with assessments. This will be based on a literature review and synthesis of previous work on Japanese interaction pertaining to agreements with assessments and related phenomena (Hayano, 2007, 2013; Mori, 1999; Tanaka, 2005, 2008). It will be shown that Japanese speakers rely heavily on two prominent features of conversational grammar---namely the freedom to leave arguments unexpressed and the ease with which word order may be varied---for augmenting affiliation by indexing agreement at the earliest possible opportunity.
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