Chapter published in:
Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social actionEdited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 315] 2020
► pp. 203–236
Self-addressed questions as fixed expressions for epistemic stance marking in Japanese conversation
Tomoko Endo | The University of Tokyo
Daisuke Yokomori | Kyushu University
Speakers in conversation do not always produce utterances smoothly. Among the
various ways of deferring utterance production, this chapter focuses on
three kinds of self-addressed questions (SAQs) in Japanese conversation:
nan-daroo ‘what would it be,’
nan-te-yuu-no ‘what do you call it,’ and
nan-da-kke ‘what was it again.’ Through quantitative
analyses, we argue that the SAQs should be treated as fixed expressions for
marking the epistemic stance of the speaker. We then qualitatively examine
how these SAQs are used in conversation and discuss that the use of the
different types of SAQs, each of which indicates a specific type of trouble,
contributes to the management of progressivity of the interaction and
intersubjectivity between participants.
Keywords: epistemic stance, uncertainty, speech disfluency, self-addressed questions, Japanese conversation
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