Discourse patterns forturn-final conjunctions  

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Koivisto, Aino

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1254-1272.
Topik: Conjunction; Turn-finalparticle; Discoursepattern; Conversationanalysis; Finnishlanguage
Fulltext: Koivisto_A.pdf (689.81KB)

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This articledescribestheregularitiesintheuseoftheFinnishconjunctions ja (‘and’) and mutta (‘but’) asturn-finalparticlesinordinary conversation.Thedataisanalyzedusingconversationanalyticandinteractionallinguisticmethods.Thebasicobservationdiscussedin this articleisthatasfinalparticles,thewords ja and mutta recurrentlyoccuraspartsoffixed,two-partdiscoursepatterns.Inthecaseof ja (‘and’), thediscoursepatternconsistsofageneralclaimandaspecifyinglistthatendsin ja. Thislist-final ja implies thatthelistisnot exhaustivebutonlyexemplifiestheearlierclaim.Ontheotherhand, mutta (‘but’) occursattheendoftheconcessiveturnsthatareusedto retract someearlierclaimbythesamespeaker.Byusingtheturn-final mutta, thespeakerimpliesthattheearlierclaimstillholds--despite the retraction.Thispaperarguesthattheidentificationoftherecurrentdiscoursepatternshelpstoexplainthefunctionsandthe recognizabilityofconjunctionsasfinalparticles.Thediscoursepatternsdescribedinthearticlemaybeseenasreducedversionsofhighly predictable,largerpatternsinwhichtheobviouscontinuationisleftimplicit,withtheconjunctionoccurringinfinalposition

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