Displaying recipiency: reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction

by Xu, Jun, (Linguist)

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Full title :Displaying recipiency : reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction / Jun Xu.

Summary

This book is intended to address students, researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest primarily to conversation analysts and pragmaticians involved in the research on talk-in-interaction in general and Mandarin Chinese conversations in particular. The communicative aspect makes this book relevant to the areas of language use. While previous research has shown that one single reactive token has different discourse functions in different conversational environments, this study shows that participants' collaborative orientation to each other's status of displayed recipiency seems decisive for the selection of reactive tokens, rather than one specific reactive token being employed for specific conversational purposes in varying interactional contexts. This book also contributes to fields in linguistics, pragmatics, and sociology which specialize in the investigation of spontaneous human communication.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027266576, 9027266573
oclc:ocn957554917
LC Classification:P40.5.C76
Dewey Decimal:495.101/45

Displaying Recipiency; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of tables; List of figures; List of graphs; Introduction; 1.1 Aspects of conversation; 1.2 Dichotomy in relation to reactive tokens; 1.3 Organization of the book; Reactive Tokens in English and Mandarin Conversation; 2.1 Previous studies on reactive tokens; 2.2 A survey of reactive tokens in English conversation; 2.2.1 'Mm'; 2.2.2 'Mm hm'; 2.2.3 'Yeah'/'Yes'; 2.2.4 'Uh huh'; 2.2.5 'Oh'; 2.2.6 'Okay'; 2.2.7 'Right'; 2.2.8 Confirmatory repeats; 2.2.9 Collaborative productions.

2.2.10 Laughter tokens2.2.11 Summary; 2.3 Reactive tokens in Mandarin conversation; Data and Approach; 3.1 Data collection through the map task; 3.1.1 The map task; 3.1.2 Settings and participants; 3.1.3 Instruments and procedures; 3.1.4 A summary of the data; 3.1.5 Potential limitations of the map task; 3.1.6 Reactive tokens in relation to the map task data; 3.2 Approaches to data analysis; 3.2.1 Aspects of conversation analysis; 3.2.2 Deviant case analysis in conversation analysis; 3.2.3 The use of recorded data in conversation analysis; 3.2.4 The procedures of conversation analysis.

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