Andrea Golato
Biographic Data
| ID | 659332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Golato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Golato |
| SIGNATURE | GOLATO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7844-6788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 320 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Speech Acts and Grammar
Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is used not only to describe states of affairs and events but also to do certain things (for instance, complaining, praising, etc.). The acts that a speaker performs when uttering a sentence are called speech acts. The term speech act goes back to the language philosophers John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The encyclopedic entry discusses what speech acts are, how they …
Hop(p)la in French and German
There is a growing body of conversation analytic research on the role of vocalizations and interjections in interaction. This conversation analytic article contributes to this research by comparing the use and functions of the interjection hop(p)la in French and German interaction. While hop(p)la occurs frequently in everyday French and German conversation, it has not been studied as it occurs in real time. The data come from publicly-available d…
How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses: The Case of Oder Nicht in German
This conversation analytic study explores German turn-final oder nich(t), as in Soll ich jetzt weiterlesen oder nicht ("should I continue reading or not"). These oder nicht-appended questions raise one state of affairs and invoke its negated version via oder nicht. They emerge in environments in which epistemics and/or deontics are negotiated. Through these turns, participants index their commitment to the likelihood of the state of affairs expre…
Pragmatics Research Methods
This entry presents an overview of the different research methods (i.e., data collection and data analysis procedures) used in pragmatics research. Given that various theoretical approaches within pragmatics employ similar data collection and data analysis procedures, this entry is not organized by theoretical approach but by the research methods available. The section on data collection procedures is divided into three parts: it first discusses …
The real-time processing of pragmatics: An experimental psychological-conversation analytic study of obwohl clauses in spoken German
Reference repair in German and French
Introduction to special issue: Reference in interaction
Reparaturen von Personenreferenzen
Pragmatics Research Methods
As the entries in this encyclopedia demonstrate, there are a number of theoretical approaches to the study of pragmatics, or language use. And similarly, there are a number of different research methods, that is, data collection techniques and subsequent data analysis procedures.
Speech Acts
Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is not only used to describe states of affairs and events, but also to do certain things (for instance complaining, praising, etc.).
German oh: Marking an Emotional Change of State
Working within a conversation analytic framework, this article analyzes the use and function of oh in conversational German and compares it to ach in German and oh in English. The analysis shows that both ach and oh are change-of-state tokens like English oh, but while ach is typically used for cognitive changes of state, oh is typically used to mark affective changes of state. The emotions communicated by oh are varied, and both the phonetic rea…
German so: Managing sequence and action
Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates one function of the discourse marker so in everyday German conversations. In particular, the paper describes how speakers of German use so to manage sequences of actions (both verbal and embodied actions). With the production of so, speakers indicate that they view the prior action as complete and that they are ready for the next action. Specifically, so is placed between two types …
Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk: Achso. and ach in German interaction
This conversation analytic study contrasts the German particles ach and achso. and discusses their form, function and interactional trajectory. It extends Golato and Betz’s (2008) work on ach and achso. in third positions of repair sequences to other positions and actions, and compares it to work on English oh (Heritage, 1984, 1998, 2002, 2005; Local, 1996). Based on the analysis of over 200 instances, I argue that ach so. is used to explicitly m…
Repairing reference
Languages provide speakers with resources for both referencing and repairing. While referencing is crucial for sustaining intersubjectivity, repairing is crucial for re-establishing intersubjectivity (Auer 1984; Schegloff 1992a; Schegloff et al. 1977). This chapter describes a repair-initiation action that claims that a particular aspect of the prior turn presents "trouble" for its speaker (e.g., understanding the prior turn; for a review of "rep…
German ach and achso in repair uptake: Resources to sustain or remove epistemic asymmetry
Using conversation analytic methodology, this article examines the use of the German tokens ach ‘oh’ and achso ‘oh I see’ in the uptake of repair. While achso has been studied from a functional-pragmatic perspective, no contrastive study of ach and achso exists. We investigate two questions: Do different forms of ach occur in the same sequential position? Are they associated with different interactional functions? The paper shows that in sequenti…
Comparing Single and Double Sayings of the German Response Token ja and the Role of Prosody: A Conversation Analytic Perspective
or ja^ja., cannot be considered a more intense version of the same action. Moreover, the two forms ^jaja. and ja^ja. systematically accomplish separate interactional goals. Both forms are produced when the prior speaker utters something that is obvious and/or known by the jaja speaker. However, by uttering ^jaja. (with pitch peak on the first syllable), the speaker merely indicates that the prior utterance contains already known information and t…
Remembering Relevant Information and Withholding Relevant Next Actions: The German Token achja
Using conversation analytic methodology, in this article, we examine two prosodic variants of the German response token achja and their use in everyday interaction. Whereas achJA, with prosodic prominence (in form of higher amplitude) on the second syllable, is used to claim remembering of relevant but just now recalled information, ∧achja, with prosodic prominence (in form of a pitch peak) on the first syllable, serves as a placeholder in sequen…
Repair in membership categorization in French
Using conversation analysis as methodology, this article provides a link between the local organization of talk and larger societal issues by investigating specific conversational sequences in which French speakers from different speech communities interact. It is argued that in addition to dealing with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding, repair can simultaneously be used to negotiate linguistic membership. Repair can be used to est…
Negotiation of face in web chats
Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates how ‘politeness’ and ‘face’ are negotiated in web chats. Following previous conversation analytic research (Heritage 1984), we first tie the concepts face and social solidarity to the conversation analytic concept of preference organization. We then proceed to describe the system of communication of chats, delineating some technological constraints of the medium that have an impact …
Repair in Chats: A Conversation Analytic Approach
Using conversation analytic methodology, this article first describes the interactional organization of a German Web chat program, comparing it to the interactional organization of ordinary conversation. In this comparison, we focus on (a) the technical aspects of Web chat communication that have an impact on the interaction; (b) "turns," turn-transition space, turn taking; and (c) adjacency pairs and sequence organization. In the main body of th…
Studying Compliment Responses: A Comparison of DCTs and Recordings of Naturally Occurring Talk
This article provides a detailed study of the differences between compliment responses collected with two different data collection procedures: naturally occurring data analysed through conversation analytic (CA) methodology, and elicited data collected via a discourse completion task (DCT). The DCT was designed to evoke the same discourse context and preceding cotext observed in the naturally occurring data. The article demonstrates that these d…
Self-quotation in German: Reporting on past decisions
Grammar and Interaction: Reported Discourse and Subjunctive in German
The present study investigates the relationship between grammar and interaction, specifically, the forms and interactional functions of direct and indirect discourse in spoken German. The study demonstrates that quotatives and the grammatical form of quotes are context-sensitive; that is, depending on the current actions (either providing background information, telling stories, telling troubles, or giving explanations), interactants select diffe…
German compliment responses
An innovative German quotative for reporting on embodied actions: Und ich so/und er so 'and i'm like/and he's like
Studying Compliment Responses: A Comparison of DCTs and Recordings of Naturally Occurring Talk
This article provides a detailed study of the differences between compliment responses collected with two different data collection procedures: naturally occurring data analysed through conversation analytic (CA) methodology, and elicited data collected via a discourse completion task (DCT). The DCT was designed to evoke the same discourse context and preceding cotext observed in the naturally occurring data. The article demonstrates that these d…
German compliment responses
An innovative German quotative for reporting on embodied actions: Und ich so/und er so 'and i'm like/and he's like
Comparing Single and Double Sayings of the German Response Token ja and the Role of Prosody: A Conversation Analytic Perspective
or ja^ja., cannot be considered a more intense version of the same action. Moreover, the two forms ^jaja. and ja^ja. systematically accomplish separate interactional goals. Both forms are produced when the prior speaker utters something that is obvious and/or known by the jaja speaker. However, by uttering ^jaja. (with pitch peak on the first syllable), the speaker merely indicates that the prior utterance contains already known information and t…
Remembering Relevant Information and Withholding Relevant Next Actions: The German Token achja
Using conversation analytic methodology, in this article, we examine two prosodic variants of the German response token achja and their use in everyday interaction. Whereas achJA, with prosodic prominence (in form of higher amplitude) on the second syllable, is used to claim remembering of relevant but just now recalled information, ∧achja, with prosodic prominence (in form of a pitch peak) on the first syllable, serves as a placeholder in sequen…
Repair in Chats: A Conversation Analytic Approach
Using conversation analytic methodology, this article first describes the interactional organization of a German Web chat program, comparing it to the interactional organization of ordinary conversation. In this comparison, we focus on (a) the technical aspects of Web chat communication that have an impact on the interaction; (b) "turns," turn-transition space, turn taking; and (c) adjacency pairs and sequence organization. In the main body of th…
Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk: Achso. and ach in German interaction
This conversation analytic study contrasts the German particles ach and achso. and discusses their form, function and interactional trajectory. It extends Golato and Betz’s (2008) work on ach and achso. in third positions of repair sequences to other positions and actions, and compares it to work on English oh (Heritage, 1984, 1998, 2002, 2005; Local, 1996). Based on the analysis of over 200 instances, I argue that ach so. is used to explicitly m…
German oh: Marking an Emotional Change of State
Working within a conversation analytic framework, this article analyzes the use and function of oh in conversational German and compares it to ach in German and oh in English. The analysis shows that both ach and oh are change-of-state tokens like English oh, but while ach is typically used for cognitive changes of state, oh is typically used to mark affective changes of state. The emotions communicated by oh are varied, and both the phonetic rea…
Reference repair in German and French
Negotiation of face in web chats
Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates how ‘politeness’ and ‘face’ are negotiated in web chats. Following previous conversation analytic research (Heritage 1984), we first tie the concepts face and social solidarity to the conversation analytic concept of preference organization. We then proceed to describe the system of communication of chats, delineating some technological constraints of the medium that have an impact …
Repair in membership categorization in French
Using conversation analysis as methodology, this article provides a link between the local organization of talk and larger societal issues by investigating specific conversational sequences in which French speakers from different speech communities interact. It is argued that in addition to dealing with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding, repair can simultaneously be used to negotiate linguistic membership. Repair can be used to est…
The real-time processing of pragmatics: An experimental psychological-conversation analytic study of obwohl clauses in spoken German
How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses: The Case of Oder Nicht in German
This conversation analytic study explores German turn-final oder nich(t), as in Soll ich jetzt weiterlesen oder nicht ("should I continue reading or not"). These oder nicht-appended questions raise one state of affairs and invoke its negated version via oder nicht. They emerge in environments in which epistemics and/or deontics are negotiated. Through these turns, participants index their commitment to the likelihood of the state of affairs expre…
An innovative German quotative for reporting on embodied actions: Und ich so/und er so 'and i'm like/and he's like
Self-quotation in German: Reporting on past decisions
Grammar and Interaction: Reported Discourse and Subjunctive in German
The present study investigates the relationship between grammar and interaction, specifically, the forms and interactional functions of direct and indirect discourse in spoken German. The study demonstrates that quotatives and the grammatical form of quotes are context-sensitive; that is, depending on the current actions (either providing background information, telling stories, telling troubles, or giving explanations), interactants select diffe…
German compliment responses
Repair in Chats: A Conversation Analytic Approach
Using conversation analytic methodology, this article first describes the interactional organization of a German Web chat program, comparing it to the interactional organization of ordinary conversation. In this comparison, we focus on (a) the technical aspects of Web chat communication that have an impact on the interaction; (b) "turns," turn-transition space, turn taking; and (c) adjacency pairs and sequence organization. In the main body of th…
Studying Compliment Responses: A Comparison of DCTs and Recordings of Naturally Occurring Talk
This article provides a detailed study of the differences between compliment responses collected with two different data collection procedures: naturally occurring data analysed through conversation analytic (CA) methodology, and elicited data collected via a discourse completion task (DCT). The DCT was designed to evoke the same discourse context and preceding cotext observed in the naturally occurring data. The article demonstrates that these d…
Negotiation of face in web chats
Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates how ‘politeness’ and ‘face’ are negotiated in web chats. Following previous conversation analytic research (Heritage 1984), we first tie the concepts face and social solidarity to the conversation analytic concept of preference organization. We then proceed to describe the system of communication of chats, delineating some technological constraints of the medium that have an impact …
German ach and achso in repair uptake: Resources to sustain or remove epistemic asymmetry
Using conversation analytic methodology, this article examines the use of the German tokens ach ‘oh’ and achso ‘oh I see’ in the uptake of repair. While achso has been studied from a functional-pragmatic perspective, no contrastive study of ach and achso exists. We investigate two questions: Do different forms of ach occur in the same sequential position? Are they associated with different interactional functions? The paper shows that in sequenti…
Comparing Single and Double Sayings of the German Response Token ja and the Role of Prosody: A Conversation Analytic Perspective
or ja^ja., cannot be considered a more intense version of the same action. Moreover, the two forms ^jaja. and ja^ja. systematically accomplish separate interactional goals. Both forms are produced when the prior speaker utters something that is obvious and/or known by the jaja speaker. However, by uttering ^jaja. (with pitch peak on the first syllable), the speaker merely indicates that the prior utterance contains already known information and t…
Remembering Relevant Information and Withholding Relevant Next Actions: The German Token achja
Using conversation analytic methodology, in this article, we examine two prosodic variants of the German response token achja and their use in everyday interaction. Whereas achJA, with prosodic prominence (in form of higher amplitude) on the second syllable, is used to claim remembering of relevant but just now recalled information, ∧achja, with prosodic prominence (in form of a pitch peak) on the first syllable, serves as a placeholder in sequen…
Repair in membership categorization in French
Using conversation analysis as methodology, this article provides a link between the local organization of talk and larger societal issues by investigating specific conversational sequences in which French speakers from different speech communities interact. It is argued that in addition to dealing with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding, repair can simultaneously be used to negotiate linguistic membership. Repair can be used to est…
Repairing reference
Languages provide speakers with resources for both referencing and repairing. While referencing is crucial for sustaining intersubjectivity, repairing is crucial for re-establishing intersubjectivity (Auer 1984; Schegloff 1992a; Schegloff et al. 1977). This chapter describes a repair-initiation action that claims that a particular aspect of the prior turn presents "trouble" for its speaker (e.g., understanding the prior turn; for a review of "rep…
German so: Managing sequence and action
Using conversation analytic methodology, this paper investigates one function of the discourse marker so in everyday German conversations. In particular, the paper describes how speakers of German use so to manage sequences of actions (both verbal and embodied actions). With the production of so, speakers indicate that they view the prior action as complete and that they are ready for the next action. Specifically, so is placed between two types …
Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk: Achso. and ach in German interaction
This conversation analytic study contrasts the German particles ach and achso. and discusses their form, function and interactional trajectory. It extends Golato and Betz’s (2008) work on ach and achso. in third positions of repair sequences to other positions and actions, and compares it to work on English oh (Heritage, 1984, 1998, 2002, 2005; Local, 1996). Based on the analysis of over 200 instances, I argue that ach so. is used to explicitly m…
Pragmatics Research Methods
As the entries in this encyclopedia demonstrate, there are a number of theoretical approaches to the study of pragmatics, or language use. And similarly, there are a number of different research methods, that is, data collection techniques and subsequent data analysis procedures.
Speech Acts
Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is not only used to describe states of affairs and events, but also to do certain things (for instance complaining, praising, etc.).
German oh: Marking an Emotional Change of State
Working within a conversation analytic framework, this article analyzes the use and function of oh in conversational German and compares it to ach in German and oh in English. The analysis shows that both ach and oh are change-of-state tokens like English oh, but while ach is typically used for cognitive changes of state, oh is typically used to mark affective changes of state. The emotions communicated by oh are varied, and both the phonetic rea…
Reparaturen von Personenreferenzen
Introduction to special issue: Reference in interaction
Reference repair in German and French
The real-time processing of pragmatics: An experimental psychological-conversation analytic study of obwohl clauses in spoken German
Pragmatics Research Methods
This entry presents an overview of the different research methods (i.e., data collection and data analysis procedures) used in pragmatics research. Given that various theoretical approaches within pragmatics employ similar data collection and data analysis procedures, this entry is not organized by theoretical approach but by the research methods available. The section on data collection procedures is divided into three parts: it first discusses …
How a Terminal Tag Can Display Epistemic Stance and Constrain Responses: The Case of Oder Nicht in German
This conversation analytic study explores German turn-final oder nich(t), as in Soll ich jetzt weiterlesen oder nicht ("should I continue reading or not"). These oder nicht-appended questions raise one state of affairs and invoke its negated version via oder nicht. They emerge in environments in which epistemics and/or deontics are negotiated. Through these turns, participants index their commitment to the likelihood of the state of affairs expre…
Speech Acts and Grammar
Linguists and language philosophers have long since recognized that language is used not only to describe states of affairs and events but also to do certain things (for instance, complaining, praising, etc.). The acts that a speaker performs when uttering a sentence are called speech acts. The term speech act goes back to the language philosophers John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The encyclopedic entry discusses what speech acts are, how they …
Hop(p)la in French and German
There is a growing body of conversation analytic research on the role of vocalizations and interjections in interaction. This conversation analytic article contributes to this research by comparing the use and functions of the interjection hop(p)la in French and German interaction. While hop(p)la occurs frequently in everyday French and German conversation, it has not been studied as it occurs in real time. The data come from publicly-available d…
Linguistics (23 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (22 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 works) · German (14 works) · Conversation (12 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (11 works) · Communication (10 works)