ENGLISH

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A Description of Its Interactional Functions, with a Focus on I Think

By Elise Kärkkäinen

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2003
ISBN
9781588114440, 1588114449, 9027253579, 9789027253576, 9789027295941
LCC
PE1074.8 .K37 2003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1439099 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 115
Pages
226\226
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прагмалингвистика

Description

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers’ utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.

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