@article{BetzDeppermann2018, author = {Emma Betz and Arnulf Deppermann}, title = {Indexing Priority of Position: Eben as Response Particle in German}, series = {Research on Language and Social Interaction}, volume = {51}, number = {2}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {1532-7973}, doi = {10.1080/08351813.2018.1449449}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-76679}, pages = {171 -- 193}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Response particles manage intersubjectivity. This conversation analytic study describes German eben (“exactly”). With eben, speaker A locally agrees with the immediately prior turn of B (the “confirmable”) and establishes a second indexical link: A relates B’s confirmable to a position A herself had already displayed (the “anchor”). Through claiming temporal priority, eben speakers treat a just-formulated position as self-evident and mark independence. Further evidence for the three-part structure “anchor-confirmable-eben” that eben sets in motion retrospectively comes from instances where eben speakers supply a missing/opaque anchor via a postpositioned display of independent access. Data are in German with English translation.}, language = {en} }