This paper presents the first detailed attempt to analyse the
interactional functions of a turn-initial particle in an Australian
Aboriginal language. The Garrwa particle ngala has
grammatical properties of a clause connector that sets up a contrast
between two simultaneous but distinct events (similar to English
while). In this paper I show that
ngala is used in conversation turn-initially to
simultaneously connect the upcoming talk with the prior turn and to
project that the upcoming turn diverges in trajectory from the prior
talk or course of action. I also show how the clause connecting and
turn-initial functions of ngala are characterised
by distinct syntactic and prosodic shapes.
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Mondada, Lorenza
2007 “Multimodal Resources for Turn-Taking Pointing and
the Emergence of Possible Next Speakers.” Discourse Studies 9 (2):194–225.
Mondada, Lorenza
2011 “Understanding as an Embodied, Situated and
Sequential Achievement in Interaction.” Journal of Pragmatics 43 (2):542–552.
2006 “Motivations for Second Position: Evidence from
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Mushin, Ilana
2010 “Code-Switching as an Interactional Resource in
Garrwa Talk-In-Interaction.” Australian Journal of Linguistics 30 (4):471–496.
Mushin, Ilana
2012A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
Mushin, Ilana, and Rod Gardner
2009 “Silence is Talk: Conversational Silences in
Australian Aboriginal Talk-In-Interaction.” Journal of Pragmatics 41 (10):2033–2052.
Robinson, Jeffrey, and Tanya Stivers
2001 “Achieving Activity Transitions in
Physician-Patient Encounters.” Human Communication Research 27 (2):253–298.
Schegloff, Emanuel, and Gene Lerner
2009 “Beginning to Respond:
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Simpson, Jane
2007 “Expressing Pragmatic Constraints on Word Order in
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Simpson, Jane, and Ilana Mushin
2008 “Clause Initial in Four Australian
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