Highlighted moves within an action
Segmented talk in Japanese conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5965903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emi Morita (0000-0003-0564-2048, National University of Singapore, Singapore,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-541 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445608091885 |
| OpenAlex | W2167264228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
Japanese conversational data reveal that Japanese speakers produce, and recipients orient to, smaller units of talk than what the conventional notion of a `turn constructional unit' (TCU) represents. Unlike TCUs, such units may be grammatically, prosodically and pragmatically incomplete and may happen on the sub-phrasal level of discourse, as Japanese conversationalists prosodically break up even a single semantic constituent with the insertion of an interactional particle. In this article, I give numerous examples of how such practices of separating a segment of talk are not random but are precisely embedded in the sequential organization of talk that participants co-create. I argue that such segmentation contributes to the interactional co-construction of a turn so as to highlight specifically a `move' Within the larger action that is implemented by the TCU. Doing so thereby provides opportunities for the participants to deal with local contingency problems without changing the global level of the pragmatic work of the turn
Contingency · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Linguistics · Sociology · Turn-taking · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology
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Resources and repair
Interactional units in conversation
Sequence Organization in Interaction
Context, Activity and Participation
Between and within
Japanese Conversation
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Concurrent operations on talk
Contingency and Units in Interaction
Turns and discourse units in everyday conversation
The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin
Nodding, aizuchi, and final particles in Japanese conversation
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The construction of units in conversational talk
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |