Golato2010
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Andrea Golato |
| Title | Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk: Achso. and ach in German interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, ach, achso, German, interjections, oh |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 12 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 147–176 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445609356497 |
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Abstract
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 mark understanding of a prior action or of the import of the speaker’s own actions while ach functions as a change-of-state token marking the receipt of information without explicitly marking understanding. I discuss the implications of the findings with regard to conversation and cognition and issues of translatability.
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