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In her overview, Margret Selting makes the case for the claim that dealing with authentic conversation necessarily lies at the heart of an interactionallinguistic approach to prosody (see Selting this volume, Section 3.3). However, collecting and transcribing corpora of authentic interaction is a time-consuming enterprise. This fact often severely restricts what the individual researcher is able to do in terms of analysis within the scope of his or her resources. Still, for dealing with many of the desiderata Margret Selting points out in Section 5 of her extensive overview, the use of larger corpora seems to be required. In this commenting paper, I want to argue that future progress in research on prosody in interaction will essentially rest on the availability and use of large public corpora. After reviewing arguments for and against the use of public corpora, I will discuss some upshots regarding corpus design and issues of transcription of public corpora.
Nach Auffassung der Interaktionalen Linguistik sind Äußerungen 'situiert', das heißt ihre Form ist an ihren Kontext sowie an die Art der mit ihnen ausgeführten Handlung( en) angepasst. Dieser Beitrag überprüft diese These am Beispiel des Einflusses unterschiedlicher Beteiligungsrollen auf die Realisierung konzessiver Konstruktionen in amerikanisch-englischen Rundfunkinterviews unter Zuhilfenahme qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden. Nach einer Beschreibung der Besonderheiten des Genres werden die Auswirkungen der situationalen Identitäten der Interaktantinnen auf die Realisierung der Diskursrelation in Radiointerviews untersucht. Die Ergebnisse beruhen auf der Analyse zweier je zweistündiger Korpora von Rundfunk- und Privatkonversationsdaten. Die konzessiven Konstruktionen wurden auf der Basis dreier Handlungen - BEHAUPTEN, EINRÄUMEN und ENTGEGENHALTEN -
identifiziert. Zum einen zeigten sich dabei (zum Teil erwartbare) Unterschiede in der Länge der Konstruktionselemente, ihrer lexikalischen und prosodischen Gestaltung sowie ihrer argumentativen Aufladung. Zum anderen ergaben sich aber auch Befunde, die bisherige Annahmen ergänzen oder ihnen sogar entgegenstehen, etwa wenn Sprecherinnen mit Hilfe konzessiver Konstruktionen ihre institutionell geregelten Diskursrechte erweitern bzw. -pflichten umgehen.
This paper contributes to the growing body of knowledge on current listeners' responses in talk-in-interaction. In particular, it complements earlier findings on double sayings of German JA by describing some additional prosodic-phonetic parameters and a visual feature of its realization in institutional and semi-private interaction (doctor-patient interaction, Big Brother, TV talk shows). These include pitch contour, pitch range and phonetic ending, on the one hand, and nodding on the other. The paper shows that JAJA is a truly multimodal phenomenon, with the individual features accomplishing interactional functions across sequence-organizational habitats, including re)claiming epistemic priority in an aside, making continuation relevant, agreeing/ acknowledging with reservation and aligning with the continuation of a sequence. Lack of nodding is suggested to have situational as well as misalignment reasons. On the basis of its observations, the paper also raises the question whether it is the applicability of response token variants across action and sequence types which makes them memorizable despite their variability.
This paper presents the concept of the "participant perspective" as an approach to the study of spoken language. It discusses three aspects of this concept and shows that they can offer helpful tools in spoken language research. Employing the participant perspective provides us with an alternative to many of the approaches currently in use in the study of spoken language in that it favours small-scale, qualitative research that aims to uncover categories relevant for the participants. Its results can usefully complement large-scale studies of phenomena on all linguistic dimensions of talk.