‘Also’ as a discourse marker: its use in disjunctive and disaffiliative environments  

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Waring, Hansun Zhang

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 3 (Aug. 2003), page 415-436.
Topik: coherence; conversation analysis; discourse marker; disagreement; topic management
Fulltext: 415DES53.pdf (138.66KB)

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The aim of this article is to demonstrate the intricate operation of the adverb ‘also’ in actual interaction at a level of detail that dictionary definitions have failed to capture. Using primarily a conversation analytic framework in examining two data corpora, which include a series of graduate seminar discussions and television roundtable discussions, I argue that the semantic features of ‘also’ are strategically deployed to accomplish complex interactional goals in a disjunctive or disaffiliative environment. In a disjunctive environment, ‘also’ can be invoked to legitimize one’s speaking rights – to get the floor. In a disaffiliative environment, ‘also’ can be mobilized to either soften or strengthen a disaffiliative action in subsequent talk. These practices of ‘also’ are accounted for in part by the tensions between coherence and continuation (Linell, 1998; Tracy and Moran, 1983), and in part by the institutional contexts of news media (Dickerson, 2001; Greatbatch, 1992) and graduate seminar (Waring, 2001, 2002 a, b).

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