Publications

Publication details [#53218]

Golato, Andrea and Tobias Barske. 2010. German so: managing sequence and action. Text & Talk 30 (3) : 245–266.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse marker | everyday conversation | language and culture | sequential organization

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This conversation analytic study explores how the German discourse marker 'so' is used in everyday interactions to manage sequences of verbal and embodied actions. It also raises questions regarding cultural specificity and translatability.