Retrospective Turn Continuations in Mandarin Chinese Conversation  

Oleh:

Zhang, Wei ; Luke, Kang-kwong

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 17 no. 4 (2007), page 605-635.
Topik: Turn-taking; Syntax; Prosody; Right Dislocation; Chinese; Mandarin.
Fulltext: 564-898-1-PB.pdf (225.63KB)

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How the status of further talk past the point of a turns possible completion should be described, and what functions different kinds of turn continuation might serve these are questions that have engaged many scholars since Sacks, Schegloff and Jeffersons turn-taking model (1974). In this paper, a general scheme is proposed with which one can tease out four interlocking strands in analyzing different kinds of turn continuation: Syntactic continuity vs. discontinuity, main vs. subordinate intonation, retrospective vs. prospective orientation, and information focus vs. non-focus. These parameters combine to form different configurations and interact in interesting ways, accounting for different kinds of turn continuation. The scheme is tested on, and illustrated with, a body of naturally occurring conversational data in Chinese.

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