Luke-Zhang2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Luke-Zhang2007 |
| Author(s) | Kang-kwong Luke, Wei Zhang |
| Title | Retrospective turn continuations in Mandarin Chinese conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Right Dislocation, Prosody, Syntax, Chinese, Mandarin, Turn-taking |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Pragmatics |
| Volume | 17 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 605–635 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/prag.17.4.04luk |
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Abstract
How the status of further talk past the point of a turn’s possible completion should be described, and what functions different kinds of turn continuation might serve – these are questions that have engaged many scholars since Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson’s turn-taking model (1974). In this paper, a general scheme is proposed with which one can tease out four interlocking strands in analyzing different kinds of turn continuation: Syntactic continuity vs. discontinuity, main vs. subordinate intonation, retrospective vs. prospective orientation, and information focus vs. non-focus. These parameters combine to form different configurations and interact in interesting ways, accounting for different kinds of turn continuation. The scheme is tested on, and illustrated with, a body of naturally occurring conversational data in Chinese.
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