Hakulinen-Sorjonen2012
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Hakulinen-Sorjonen2012 |
| Author(s) | Auli Hakulinen, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Title | Being equivocal: Affective responses left unspecified |
| Editor(s) | Anssi Peräkylä, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Emotion, Responsive action |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| City | Oxford |
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| Pages | 147–173 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730735.003.0007 |
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| Book title | Emotion in Interaction |
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Abstract
This chapter explores the Finnish expression /voi että/, which is used as a response cry. It lacks referential meaning but is not devoid of meaning: it has become conventionalized as an index of affect display. /Voi että/ is part of a larger paradigm of phrasal affective responses. It is the most “open” one initiated with the interjection /voi/: there is no characterizing element but the interjection is followed by /että/, used elsewhere e.g. as a subordinating connective (’that’). This response merely voices recognition of the co-participant’s prior turn as one that has made an affective response relevant and that displays attunement to that affect. The chapter argues that by deploying a response type that expresses an affective stance but does not make the stance lexically explicit, the recipient orients to the ambivalence of the sequential implications and/or affective character of the prior talk.
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