表示疑问的
类型学
对话
组合分析
命题
计算机科学
分类学(生物学)
自然语言处理
疑问词
语音学
哲学
人工智能
语言学
心理学
认知科学
社会学
植物
人类学
生物
作者
Ditte Kimps,Gerard Nigel O'Grady
出处
期刊:WORD
[Informa]
日期:2022-07-03
卷期号:68 (3): 253-276
标识
DOI:10.1080/00437956.2021.2003539
摘要
This article examines the form and the functions of what we label overlapping reactions. These are premature responses which overlap utterances containing a variable interrogative tag, e.g., It’s nice, isn’t it. They are orientated towards the proposition contained in the tag question. Our research is grounded in a corpus of spoken British English and, employs methods and insights from corpus linguistics, conversation analysis and phonetics. Based on the clustering of observed grammatical, discoursal and prosodic features we propose a typology of the interactional functions of overlapping responses, i.e., acknowledgements, continuers, disagreements, non-committals and turn-competitive early responses. We show that such responses are not errors but rather function as part of the well-oiled machinery of spontaneous dialogue. We show that the typology of overlaps proposed by Jefferson ([1983]. “Two Explorations of the Organization of Overlapping Talk in Conversation.” Language and Literature 28: 1–33) is unable to fully distinguish between the functional categories identified in our data. Hence we suggest that a taxonomy of overlaps must be based on the patterning of formal and functional features. Our data provide evidence that tag questions are responded to a syntagmatic wholes rather than as a sequence of two parts: anchor and tag.
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