Confirming understanding and acknowledging assistance: Managing trouble responsibility in response to understanding check in Japanese talk-in-interaction  

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Kushida, Shuya

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 43 no. 11 (2011), page 2716–2739.
Topik: Other-initiated repair Responsibility Understanding check Assistance Conversation analysis Japanese
Fulltext: Kushida_S.pdf (257.18KB)

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When a recipient of a turn-at-talk has a problem in hearing/understanding, one way for initiating repair is to offer a ‘‘candidate understanding’’ of that turn for confirmation/ disconfirmation. This practice is,however,sometimesopen to being regardedby the troublesource speaker as providing a ‘better’ alternative for his/her formulation in the prior turn, because a candidate understanding contains different words than those used in the prior turn. Through an analysis of Japanese talk-in-interaction, this study argues that: (1) the practice of offering a candidate understanding is not only recognizable as checking understanding but can also be contingently recognizable as assisting the trouble-source speaker in formulating what s/he wanted/wants to say. (2) Among the two types of confirmation tokens in Japanese, a nn-type token is a resource for simply confirming the repair-initiating speaker’s understanding, whereas a soo-type token is a resource for acknowledging his/her assistance in reformulating the trouble-source speaker’s turn. (3) By responding with a soo-type token in response to an offer of a candidate understanding, the trouble-source speaker can display his/her stance to the fact that the recipient has assisted in solving a trouble in speaking and that s/he (the speaker) is responsible for the trouble.

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