Double Sayings of German<i>JA</i>—More Observations on Their Phonetic Form and Alignment Function

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar

doi:10.1080/08351813.2011.567099

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“…Until recently, these terms have been used somewhat imprecisely, even interchangeably. However, recently, Barth-Weingarten (2011) has differentiated the terms (dis)alignment and (dis)affiliation as follows: (dis)alignment "is used as a purely structural notion, referring to the (lack of) endorsement of the sequence/activity in progress, and thus contrasts with the notion of (dis)affiliation, which is understood as a (lack of) endorsement of the previous speaker's evaluative positioning, or stance" (p. 161). This definition derives from Stivers (2008), who has used the term 'aligning' to describe actions by a second speaker which support the activity being undertaken by the first speaker.…”

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Pitch Contour Matching and Interactional Alignment across Turns: An Acoustic Investigation

2012

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A bstractIn o rd e r to ex p lo re th e influence o f c o n te x t on th e p hon etic design o f talk-in-interaction, w e investigated th e pitch characteristics o f s h o rt tu m s (in se rtio n s) th a t a re produced by on e Speaker betw een turns from a n o th e r Speaker. W e investigated th e hypothesis th a t th e Speaker o f th e insertion designs h e r tu rn as a pitch match to th e p rio r turn in o rd e r to align w ith th e previous speaker's agenda, w h ereas non-matching displays th a t th e Speaker o f th e insertion is non-aligning, fo r exam ple to initiate a n e w action. D a ta w e re taken from th e A M I m eeting corpus, focusing on th e spontaneous talk o f first-language English participants. Using sequential analysis, 177 insertions w e r e classified as e ith e r aligning o r non-aligning in acco rd an ce w ith definitions o f these term s in th e C o n versa tio n Analysis literatu re. T h e degree o f sim ilarity betw een th e pitch c o n to u r o f th e insertion and th a t o f th e p rio r speaker's tu m w as m easured, using a n e w techn iqu e th a t integrates norm alized FO and in tensity inform ation. T h e results show ed th a t aligning insertions w e r e significantly m o re sim ilar to th e im m ediately preceding tu m , in term s o f pitch co n to u r, than w e r e non-aligning insertions. This Supports th e v ie w th a t cho ice o f pitch c o n to u r is managed locally, ra th e r than by re fe ren ce to an intonational lexicon.

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Section: Interactional Issuesmentioning

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Pitch Contour Matching and Interactional Alignment across Turns: An Acoustic Investigation

2012

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“…A particular type of repeat, which does not appear to be done for any of those reasons, involves the reduplication of a linguistic unit within a single prosodic unit and as one turn. This type of reduplication has been documented for the negative response token nej ('no') in Danish (Heinemann, 2003), the positive response token ja ('yes') in both German (Barth-Weingarten, 2011;Golato and Fagyal, 2008) and Danish (Heinemann, 2009), for verbs and phrases in Estonian (Keevallik, 2010), as well as for a variety of lexical, phrasal, and sentential units in Japanese, Russian, and American English (Stivers, 2004). 1 This research has attested that reduplication 'performs an action that is analyzably discrete from the item being repeated' (Stivers, 2004: 268, my emphasis) and does not merely constitute a 'more intense version' of the action implemented by the single item (Golato and Fagyal, 2008: 243).…”

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Registering revision: The reduplicated Danish change-of-state tokennå

Heinemann

2015

Discourse Studies

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Reduplication is a phenomenon that can be applied to various linguistic units. In this article, I determine what action the reduplication of the Danish change-of-state token nå accomplishes in interaction. Following previous research on reduplication and using the method of Conversation Analysis, I show that reduplicated nå serves to register that the previous turn at talk implemented a larger course of action, namely that of revision.

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“…Our analysis will show that the response and modal particle thus share some semantic-pragmatic features: Both indicate consensus while highlighting something as not new. 50n response particles that can be used for confirmation in English, see Barnes (2011Barnes ( ,2012; Gardner (2007); Heritage (1984Heritage ( , 2016; on German, see Barth-Weingarten (2011); Betz (2015); Golato and Fagyal (2008); Oloff (2017). 6Cf.…”

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“…Response tokens can index the relevance of the larger course of action and thus operate on different discourse levels (Gardner, 2007;Golato & Betz, 2008;Heinemann, 2016;Mazeland & Plug, 2010;Sorjonen, 2001). The fit of the just-prior turn within the larger course of action can be addressed with multiples in different languages (Barth-Weingarten, 2011;Golato & Fagyal, 2008;Heinemann, 2016;Stivers, 2004). For Danish, Heinemann (2016) shows that nana differs from single na in that it registers the prior turn as a revision of an earlier turn by the same speaker.…”

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Indexing Priority of Position: Eben as Response Particle in German

Betz

Deppermann

2018

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Response particles manage intersubjectivity. This conversation analytic study describes German eben ("exactly"). With eben, speaker A locally agrees with the immediately prior turn of B (the "confirmable") and establishes a second indexical link: A relates B's confirmable to a position A herself had already displayed (the "anchor"). Through claiming temporal priority, eben speakers treat a just-formulated position as selfevident and mark independence. Further evidence for the three-part structure "anchor-confirmable-ebe/T that eben sets in motion retrospectively comes from instances where eben speakers supply a missing/ opaque anchor via a postpositioned display of independent access. Data are in German with English translation. Responses are central to managing intersubjectivity in interaction (Thompson, Fox, & Couper-Kuhlen, 2015). Through their design and placement, interactants show their understanding of the current action and the larger activity in which they are engaged, index alignment or agreement, and manage relative epistemic positioning. Extract 1 shows an instance of the type of responsive turn in focus.1 It is taken from a room remodeling project, during which Pauline (PZ) is engaged in painting and Tamara (TZ) offers a positive assessment of the emerging result (01). Pauline responds with two particles, ja and eben (03), and an explicit knowledge formulation (05). Extract 1: streifen ("[brush]lines") [126.av_FOLK_218_c654_16:45] 01 TZ: nee=sieht doch cooler aus ohne die streifen: no ((it)) does look cooler without the lines 02 (0.2) 03-> PZ: >ja,< (.) eben; yep EBEN2 04 (0.1) 05 PZ: wusst ich auch: I also knew ((that))3 CO N TA CT Emma Betz

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Double Sayings of GermanJA—More Observations on Their Phonetic Form and Alignment Function

Cited by 101 publications

References 24 publications

Pitch Contour Matching and Interactional Alignment across Turns: An Acoustic Investigation

Pitch Contour Matching and Interactional Alignment across Turns: An Acoustic Investigation

Registering revision: The reduplicated Danish change-of-state tokennå

Indexing Priority of Position: Eben as Response Particle in German

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