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Publication details [#64391]

Hsieh, Chen-Yu Chester. 2018. From turn-taking to stance-taking: Wenti-shi ‘(the) thing is’ as a projector construction and an epistemic marker in Mandarin conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 127 : 107–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreement | conversation | epistemology | marker of conversational organization | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper states that wenti-shi (Mandarin Chinese) ‘(the) thing is/(the) problem is’ , serves as a retrospective projector construction; functions as an epistemic stance marker; marks a shift in viewpoint and points out epistemic rights; and aids conversationalists treat who assents with whom.