Co-Construction of a Mental Map in Spatial Discourse: A Case of Japanese Rock Climbers' Use of Deictic Verbs of Motion  

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Kataoka, Kuniyoshi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 14 no. 4 (2004)
Topik: Deictic verbs of motion; Denotational/interactional texts; Frames of reference; Poetics.
Fulltext: Kunivoshi Kataoka.pdf (2.29MB)

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By focusing on a wayfinding discussion by Japanese rock climbers, this case study shows that even a short segment of discourse can sufficiently embed several layers of "denotational" and "interactional" texts (Silverstein 1997) that emerge through discursive interactions. On the denotational level, there appears to be a highly consistent pattern in which iku 'go' tokens are used in the earlier phase of the segment and kuru 'come' tokens are used in the latter, with both tokens highly systematically distributed and aligned through the conceptual "equivalence" (Jakobson 1960) of deictic tokens. This pattern also evokes and resonates with the interactional text, which has been indexically constructed by the manipulation of the time-space deixis. I show that social configurations can be tacitly and immanently created with these deictic tokens in interaction, and I stress the importance of studying the sequential vicissitudes of perspectival maintenance and shifts in discourse.

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