Acceptance and resistance: an analysis of <em>ah</em> and <em>ay</em> as indicators of change of state

The present investigation applies a conversation-analytic approach to the study of the linguistic particles ah and ay in naturally occurring interaction. The particles are analysed from a corpus of Mexican Spanish interactions. Ah and ay are defined as change-of-state tokens, ah and ay show acceptan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ariel Vázquez Carranza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: El Colegio de México, A.C. 2016-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
Subjects:
ah
ay
Online Access:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/38