Ptojections in Chinese Conversation

• Main Authors: Yeh, Hui-chen, 葉慧貞
• Other Authors: Shuanfan Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12777931792477818309

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 語言學研究所 === 89 === Language use is a form of joint action carried out by participants acting in coordination with each other under the circumstances of talk-in-interactions. Since such joint activity cannot be achieved only by one person with no interactions with other participant, there must be resources that allow interlocutors a certain pre-monition/projection as to what the current speakers might be up to next. This thesis attempts to demonstrate how participants in conversation use various resources to make successful projections and take their turns at properly timed places. Through an investigation of various pre’s (preliminaries or pre-sequences), syntactic resources for turn projections, and sequentially sensitive lexical items in Chinese conversation, we show how the joint action is jointly achieved by one participant’s uses of resources for turn projection to successfully predict the other’s action and thus give a proper response at appropriate points in conversation. In addition, by examining the relation between interactional strategies and projections in conversation, we show that the choice of interactional strategies and their occurrences can be predicted, which further strengthens the relationship between projections and talk-in-interactions.