Suspended assessments in German talk-in-interaction
- 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.
Author: | Marit AldrupORCiD, Uwe-Alexander KüttnerORCiDGND, Constanze Lechler, Susanne Reinhardt |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-107108 |
URL: | https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-4702-4/Kupetz_Kern_Hg_Prosodie_FS_Selting/ |
ISBN: | 978-3-8253-4702-4 |
Parent Title (English): | Prosody and Multimodality |
Parent Title (German): | Prosodie und Multimodalität. Empirische Beiträge der Interaktionalen Linguistik |
Series (Serial Number): | OraLingua (18) |
Publisher: | Winter |
Place of publication: | Heidelberg |
Editor: | Maxi Kupetz, Friederike Kern |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/10/05 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
Publicationstate: | Postprint |
Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | Bewertung; Interaktionale Linguistik; Prosodie; Suspendierung; Unvollständige TCUs assessment; incomplete TCUs; interactional linguistics; prosody; suspension |
GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Interaktion; Kommunikation; Konversationsanalyse; Prosodie |
First Page: | 31 |
Last Page: | 66 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung |
Program areas: | P1: Interaktion |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |