TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Aldrup, Marit
A1  - Küttner, Uwe-Alexander
A1  - Lechler, Constanze
A1  - Reinhardt, Susanne
ED  - Kupetz, Maxi
ED  - Kern, Friederike
T1  - Suspended assessments in German talk-in-interaction
T2  - Prosodie und Multimodalität. Empirische Beiträge der Interaktionalen Linguistik
T2  - Prosody and Multimodality
N2  - In this paper we examine the composition and interactional deployment of suspended assessments in ordinary German conversation. We define suspended assessments as lexicosyntactically incomplete assessing TCUs that share a distinct cluster of prosodic-phonetic features which auditorily makes them come off as 'left hanging' rather than cut-off (e.g., Schegloff/Jefferson/Sacks 1977; Jasperson 2002) or trailing-off (e.g., Local/Kelly 1986; Walker 2012). Using CA/IL methodology (Couper-Kuhlen/Selting 2018) and drawing on a large body of video-recorded face-to-face conversations, we highlight the verbal, vocal and bodily-visual resources participants use to render such unfinished assessing TCUs recognizably incomplete and identify six recurrent usage types. Overall, the suspension of assessing TCUs appears to either serve as a practice for circumventing the production of assessments that are interactionally inapposite, or as a practice for coping with local contingencies that render the very doing of an assessment problematic for the speaker. Data are in German with English translations.
T3  - OraLingua - 18 
KW  - assessment
KW  - suspension
KW  - incomplete TCUs
KW  - prosody
KW  - interactional linguistics
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Prosodie
KW  - Bewertung
KW  - Suspendierung
KW  - Unvollständige TCUs
KW  - Prosodie
KW  - Interaktionale Linguistik
KW  - Kommunikation
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-107108
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-107108
UR  - https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-4702-4/Kupetz_Kern_Hg_Prosodie_FS_Selting/
SN  - 978-3-8253-4702-4
SB  - 978-3-8253-4702-4
SP  - 31
EP  - 66
PB  - Winter
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  -