OKAY in responding and claiming understanding
- OKAY originates from English, but it is increasingly used across languages. This chapter presents data from 13 languages, illustrating the spectrum of possible uses of OKAY in responding and claiming understanding in contexts of informings. Drawing on a wide range of interaction types from both informal and institutional contexts, including those crucially involving embodied practices, we show how OKAY can be used to (i) claim sufficient understanding, (ii) mark understanding of the prior informing as preliminary or not complete, and (iii) index discrepancy of expectation.
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| Author: | Emma BetzORCiDGND, Arnulf DeppermannORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-103858 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.03bet |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-6028-4 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-0815-6 |
| ISSN: | 1879-3983 |
| Parent Title (English): | OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction |
| Series (Serial Number): | Studies in language and social interaction (34-) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Editor: | Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada, Marja-Leena Sorjonen |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/03/25 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | (discrepancy of) expectation; closing; continuer; informing; intersubjectivity; newsmark; prosody; second position; third position; understanding |
| GND Keyword: | Datenanalyse; Kontrastive Linguistik; Konversationsanalyse; O.K.; Pragmatik |
| First Page: | 55 |
| Last Page: | 92 |
| Note: | This is a postprint of an article that was published in the book "OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction". The published article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| 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 |