Kim2015a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Mary Shin Kim |
| Title | Reconstructing misinterpretation and misrepresentation through represented talk in Korean conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Korean, Indirect speech, Reported Speech, Misinterpretation |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Journal | Text & Talk |
| Volume | 35 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 759-787 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/text-2015-0021 |
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Abstract
Drawing from a corpus of telephone and face-to-face Korean conversational data, this study investigates cases of represented talk (RT) that routinely occur in second position as a response to a prior turn that the speaker finds problematic and in need of repair. The speaker finds problems in the way the recipient interprets or represents certain events, situations, or the interlocutors themselves, and the speaker seeks to rectify these (mis)conceptions and (mis)representations through RT. The speaker reports a former locution, which demonstrates the recipient’s understanding to be incorrect or insufficient. At such delicate interactional junctures, the speaker begins a quote as direct reported speech (DRS) and closes the same quote as indirect reported speech (IRS). The unique design of combining DRS and IRS allows Korean speakers to negotiate what to show (DRS) and what to tell (IRS) according to the importance and relevance of the current interaction and current recipients. The study further discusses why this particular design of RT is readily observed in Korean conversation and how it fits within its interactional task of reconstructing matters according to the speaker’s perspective.
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