TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Gubina, Alexandra
A1  - Betz, Emma
A1  - Deppermann, Arnulf
T1  - Doing more than confirming: expanded responses to requests for confirmation in German talk-in-interaction
JF  - Contrastive Pragmatics
N2  - While requests for confirmation (RfCs) make a yes/no-response relevant, recipients often produce more than a mere confirmation. Our paper explores expanded responses to RfCs in German talk-in-interaction. We focus on responses consisting of a confirmation and an additional TCU/action. Drawing on video data from mundane and institutional settings, we demonstrate how expanded responses are designed and fit the sequential environments in which they occur. We show four different functions fulfilled with expanded responses: (i) specifying and elaborating on the topic introduced in the RfC, (ii) accounting for the intelligibility of the speaker’s prior actions, (iii) resisting the terms of the RfC, and (iv) challenging a RfC by referring to the recipient’s pre-existing knowledge. Finally, we summarize interactional features relevant for the occurrence of expanded responses in our data. In addition, we discuss the implications of our results for future cross linguistic research.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Bestätigung
KW  - Frage
KW  - Antwort
KW  - Sprecher
KW  - request for confirmation
KW  - expanded response
KW  - topical elaboration
KW  - account
KW  - challenge
KW  - transformative answer
KW  - Interactional Linguistics
Y1  - 2024
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-126288
SN  - 2666-0385
SS  - 2666-0385
U6  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10114
DO  - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10114
SP  - 307
EP  - 346
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
ER  -