Kim2013b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Kim2013b |
| Author(s) | Hye Ri Stephanie Kim |
| Title | Reshaping the response space with kulenikka in beginning to respond to questions in Korean conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Question and answer, Response design, Kule-nikka, Turn beginning, Discourse markerInteractional Linguistics, Korean, Responding |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 57 |
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| Pages | 303–317 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.04.006 |
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Abstract
Respondents have various ways of resisting the constraints that questions impose on them. In this article I show one way in which Korean speakers deal with trouble of responding to questions as put when beginning to respond: Prefacing their responses with kulenikka. The analysis shows that kulenikka marks the response as departing from the question's terms and signals a reshaping of the response space. Three common contexts for this departure are: Respondents (1) cannot conform to the question's terms due to the question's inadequate presuppositions; (2) defer a straightforward or type-conforming answer; and (3) evade the question. The findings contribute to a developing body of conversation analytic research on how question recipients display resistance to questions, and more generally how turn-beginnings serve as an important place in interaction.
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