I thought it was very interesting. Conversational formats for taking a stance  

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Karkkainen, Elise

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 15 (2012), page 2194-2210.
Topik: Conversational format; I thought; Evaluative stance; Epistemic stance; Affective stance; Embodiment
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The paper views the epistemic phrase I thought together with the associated utterance as constituting a conversational format used for taking an evaluative, epistemic or affective stance, or for indexing a change in the speaker's epistemic state. The paper presents evidence for the high degree of formulaicity and routinization of the utterances involving I thought, and thus for the existence of linguistic and conversational formats involving this phrase. Relatedly, it shows that these formats are overwhelmingly used in the service of taking a stance in everyday conversation. Thus, I thought may be followed by a rather explicit evaluative or epistemic stance, yielding formats like [I thought] +[it/that] + [was] + [(intensifier)] + [evaluative item] or [I thought] + [(epistemic adverb)] + [X] + [was]. The phrase may also be followed by an affective stance, as in the format [I thought] + [interjection/exclamation] + [stanced utterance/telling]. Finally, the utterance as a whole may display a change in the speaker's epistemic state of the form [I thought] + [past predication]. The paper concludes by looking at two video examples of one stance format, to highlight the importance of embodied production for establishing a negative or a positive polarity for an originally ambivalent stance.

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