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. 287–314
Turn design and progression
The use of aiyou in Mandarin conversation
Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu | San Diego State University
The temporal character of talk is one fundamental feature of language
in situ. As interaction unfolds, participants
need to not only monitor the temporal progression of talk toward
completion, but also attend to how the current turn ties back to the
preceding turns. Whereas such dual-directional consideration is
often a latent aspect of turn construction, efforts to clear up
possible ambiguity are sometimes in order. This article introduces a
Mandarin practice, the aiyou-preface, which seems
to be used to just this end, and demonstrates an intimate
relationship between the prosodic design of
aiyou-preface and the displayed orientation to the
intended directionality of the talk. The analysis draws upon a
corpus of 35 hours of conversations collected in China.
Keywords: particles, prosody, conversation analysis, turn design, turn progression, directionality,
aiyou
Published online: 19 July 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.10wu
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.31.10wu
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