Hsieh2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Hsieh2017 |
| Author(s) | Chen-Yu Chester Hsieh |
| Title | From Receipt of Information to Management of Interaction: The Use of Zheyangzi as a Response Token in Chinese Conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, Chinese, Mandarin, Particle |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Concentric: Studies in Linguistics |
| Volume | 43 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 87-118 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.6241/concentric.ling.43.2.04 |
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Abstract
The current study aims to investigate the information receipt particle zheyangzi (ZYZ) in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Adopting an Interactional Linguistics approach to spoken data, I show that ZYZ tends to co-occur with particular preceding and suffixing particles within the same turn and that the use of particles may to some extent influence the design of the next turn. Moreover, I argue that ZYZ serves three major interactional functions other than information receipting and that the sequential environment in which it is deployed exerts a significant influence over how the particle is understood and reacted to by interlocutors. The meaning of ZYZ is thus dynamically negotiated and co-constructed through talk-in-interaction.
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