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Agreement, acknowledgment, and alignment

The discourse-pragmatic functions of hao and dui in Taiwan Mandarin conversation

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ID5965751
AuthorsYu-Fang Wang, Pi-Hua Tsai (0000-0002-9043-865X), David Goodman (0000-0003-2504-503X), Meng-Ying Lin (0000-0002-8507-031X)
Year2010
Volume12
Issue2
Pages241-267
Publication date2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445609346922
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited19

This study draws on Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995), Conversation Analysis (Sacks et al., 1974), and Politeness Theory (Brown and Levinson, 1987) in investigating a full range of discourse functions for hao and dui with reference to recurrent patterns, distributions, and forms of organization in a large corpus of talk. Special emphasis is placed on a comparison of hao and dui in combination with a small subset of discourse particles: in particular hao/hao le/ hao la/hao a/hao ba and dui/dui a/dui le in spoken discourse. We find that both of the markers signal special sequential relatedness in talk and carry information which is relevant in determining the boundaries of conversational exchange. However, in interaction hao is used for expressing acceptance of the other speaker’s move or act, whereas dui conveys acknowledgment of the propositional content of the utterance produced by the other speaker

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