Chapter published in:
Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languagesEdited by John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 31] 2018
► pp. 59–96
Chapter 3
Bueno-, pues-, and
bueno-pues-prefacing in Spanish
conversation
Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder
This chapter reports on two turn-initial particles in Spanish:
bueno and pues. While previous
research has equated both of these to
well-prefacing in English in that they project
“unexpectedness”, here the aim is to explicate the distinct
interactional work that each particle performs. Focusing on
responses to questions, I show that bueno-prefaced
responses do not overtly problematize the prior utterance, but
rather accept its terms before departing from them, and thereby
acquiesce to the prior turn’s design. Pues-prefaced
responses, by contrast, are directly addressed to the prior turn,
but they cast that prior turn’s action or design as problematic in
some way. I conclude by illustrating how these two uses are not
mutually exclusive by examining the compound preface
bueno-pues.
Keywords: particle bueno
, particle pues
, Spanish, conversation analysis/CA, discourse marker, answers, responses
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Distinguishing Bueno from Pues
- 3. Bueno-prefacing
- 4. Pues-prefacing
- 5. Bueno-Pues-prefacing
- 6.Discussion: A cross-linguistic and cross-dialectical perspective on ‘order at all points’
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Notes -
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Published online: 19 July 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.03ray
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.03ray
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