Zur Grammatik des Verstehens im Gespräch: Inferenzen anzeigen und Handlungskonsequenzen ziehen mit also und dann
The paper studies how the German connectives also and dann are used as displays of understanding in talk-in-interaction. It is shown that the use of also at turn-beginnings in pre-front-field position is a routine practice to explicate implicit meanings of the prior turn of the partner, which is pre...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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De Gruyter
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2013-0001 |
| Summary: | The paper studies how the German connectives also and dann are
used as displays of understanding in talk-in-interaction. It is shown that the
use of also at turn-beginnings in pre-front-field position is a routine practice to
explicate implicit meanings of the prior turn of the partner, which is presented
for confirmation. Also thus indexes that explicated meanings are taken to be
intersubjective, i.e. part of the interlocutors’ common ground. Turn-initial dann
(in front-field position), in contrast, is routinely used to (a) index the formulation
of a unilateral inference from the partner’s prior turn which is not claimed
to have already been communicated by the partner, and is (b) used to preface
different kinds of next actions which are framed as being a consequence from
the preceding action of the partner. Drawing on data from four genres of talkin-
interaction (conversation, psychotherapy, doctor-patient interaction, broadcasted
talk shows), the paper discusses how functions of also and dann are
related to their positions concerning turn-construction and topological fields,
prosodic design, collocations, sequential structures and participation frameworks
of the interaction. |
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| ISSN: | 0721-9067 1613-3706 |