The Multifunctionality of Discourse Operator Okay: Evidence from a police interview  

Oleh:

Gaines, Philip

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 15 (2011), page 3291–3315.
Topik: Okay Discourse marker Solidarity Confrontation Police interview Macrofunction
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The multifunctionality of discourse operator okay in a broad array of spoken discourse settings has been well-attested in the research literature, e.g., acknowledgement/ acceptance, progression check, topic transition, etc. In addition, okay is often seen to performmultiple simultaneous and sometimes apparently contradictory functions. In this analysis of the discourse of an interviewing police officer, I show how okay can be recruited to perform the interactive work of not only task management but also, in other instances, of solidarity overture and, in yet others, of confrontation. I conclude by suggesting that in recruitments signaling confrontation, a global approbative ‘meaning’ can be seen to govern okay’s multifunctionality in unexpected ways

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