Svennevig2004
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Svennevig2004 |
| Author(s) | Jan Svennevig |
| Title | Other-repetition as display of hearing, understanding and emotional stance |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, ellipsis, interaction, native–non-native, repetition, topic, understanding |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 6 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 489–516 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445604046591 |
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Abstract
In this article, other-repetition after informing statements is investigated in a corpus of institutional encounters between native Norwegian clerks and non-native clients. Such repetition is used to display receipt of information. A plain repeat with falling intonation is described as a display of hearing, whereas a repeat plus a final response particle, ‘ja’ (yes), constitutes a claim of understanding. Repeats with high-tone response particles (rising intonation) in addition display emotional stance, such as surprise or interest, and these are primarily exploited for the purposes of topic organization. In the cross-linguistic context of the current encounters, the native speakers are shown to use receipts as embedded corrections of the non-native speaker’s utterances. The repeats also have certain formal features that are characteristic of the situation, such as less pronominalization and ellipsis, and this is explained as a procedure to ensure the joint construal of linguistic form.
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