کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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932845 | 1474742 | 2013 | 16 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

• Turn-initiations may show that the action is contingent and warranted.
• Prefaces to initiating turns can index continuity of action.
• The Estonian no(h)-preface accomplishes continuity across human encounters.
Initiating actions, such as the introduction of a topic or the initiation of a sequence in a conversation, are social accomplishments. The study focuses on the Estonian no(h)-preface in turns that initiate action sequences and often also a locally new topic in a human encounter. It argues that these no(h)-prefaced turns accomplish continuity beyond the current event and thereby index a long-term involvement between the participants. By marking the turn as warranted by an earlier action trajectory, the no(h)-preface contributes to achieving continuity of action across intervening sequences and encounters. The data come from 70 h of recordings primarily of phone calls.
Journal: Journal of Pragmatics - Volume 57, October 2013, Pages 274–289