TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Helmer, Henrike
A1  - Reineke, Silke
A1  - Deppermann, Arnulf
T1  - A range of uses of negative epistemic constructions in German: ICH WEIß NICHT as a resource for dispreferred actions
JF  - Journal of Pragmatics
N2  - Our paper deals with the use of ICH WEIß NICHT (‘I don’t know’) in German talk-in-interaction. Pursuing an Interactional Linguistics approach, we identify different interactional uses of ICH WEIß NICHT and discuss their relationship to variation in argument structure (SV (O), (O)VS, V-only). After ICH WEIß NICHT with full complementation, speakers emphasize their lack of knowledge or display reluctance to answer. In contrast, after variants without an object complement, in contrast, speakers display uncertainty about the truth of the following proposition or about its sufficiency as an answer. Thus, while uses with both subject and object tend to close a sequence or display lack of knowledge, responses without an object, in contrast, function as a prepositioned epistemic hedge or a pragmatic marker framing the following TCU. When ICH WEIß NICHT is used in response to a statement, it indexes disagreement (independently from all complementation patterns).
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Epistemische Logik
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Epistemics
KW  - German
KW  - Interactional linguistics
KW  - Mental verb constructions
KW  - Preference organization
Y1  - 2016
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-68856
SN  - 0378-2166
SS  - 0378-2166
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.06.002
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.06.002
VL  - 106
SP  - 97
EP  - 114
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -