Request for confirmation sequences in Yurakaré
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21239693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonja Gipper (0000-0003-0972-1683, University of Cologne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2300-9969 • E-ISSN: 2300-9969 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/opli-2024-0026 |
| OpenAlex | W4403728923 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 47 |
This article describes the resources employed by speakers of Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) for formulating and responding to requests for confirmation (RfCs). In Yurakaré, RfC turns are predominantly formatted with positive polarity and falling final intonation. Confirming responses to positive polarity RfCs and disconfirming responses to negative polarity RfCs with truth-conditional negation show a preference for repeat format. Moreover, Yurakaré exhibits a functional differentiation of repeat vs response token format in confirming responses to positive polarity RfCs, a repeat being the default format for plain confirmations of RfCs that introduce a new proposition into the discourse. The Yurakaré data presented in this article contribute to our knowledge of the cross-linguistic response possibility space, providing evidence for the capability of repeats to convey plain and unmarked confirming responses, contesting theories of interaction that propose response tokens to universally constitute the unmarked format for confirming responses across languages
Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Use-Conditional Meaning
When Listeners Talk
On Negative Yes/No Questions
A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement
Sequence Organization in Interaction
Morality and question design
Prosodie im Gespräch
Beyond committing and presupposing in Yurakaré conversations
Saying Yes without Yes
Structurally Similar Formats Are Not Functionally Equivalent across Languages
Less than Confirming, and Doing More than That
Requesting Confirmation or Reconfirmation across Languages
Request for confirmation sequences in German
A coding scheme for request for confirmation sequences across languages
Request for confirmation sequences in Low German
Language structure and social agency
Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection
Intersubjective evidentials in Yurakaré
Puzzling response particles
Revisiting Preference Organization in Context
Emphatic polarity in European Portuguese and beyond
Echoic and non-echoic confirming affirmative responses in spoken Brazilian Portuguese
Minimal answers to yes/no questions in the service of sequence organization
Polar answers
Evidentiality
Subjects and Objects
Grammar and Social Organization
Pre-semantic pragmatics encoded
Cross-speaker repetition and epistemic stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversations
Assertive content questions in Yurakaré conversations
Transformative answers
Confirming Allusions
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |