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Displaying recipiency : reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction /

This book is intended to address students, researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest primar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xu, Jun (Linguist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Colección:Studies in Chinese language and discourse.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Displaying Recipiency; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of tables; List of figures; List of graphs; Introduction; 1.1 Aspects of conversation; 1.2 Dichotomy in relation to reactive tokens; 1.3 Organization of the book; Reactive Tokens in English and Mandarin Conversation; 2.1 Previous studies on reactive tokens; 2.2 A survey of reactive tokens in English conversation; 2.2.1 'Mm'; 2.2.2 'Mm hm'; 2.2.3 'Yeah'/'Yes'; 2.2.4 'Uh huh'; 2.2.5 'Oh'; 2.2.6 'Okay'; 2.2.7 'Right'; 2.2.8 Confirmatory repeats; 2.2.9 Collaborative productions.
  • 2.2.10 Laughter tokens2.2.11 Summary; 2.3 Reactive tokens in Mandarin conversation; Data and Approach; 3.1 Data collection through the map task; 3.1.1 The map task; 3.1.2 Settings and participants; 3.1.3 Instruments and procedures; 3.1.4 A summary of the data; 3.1.5 Potential limitations of the map task; 3.1.6 Reactive tokens in relation to the map task data; 3.2 Approaches to data analysis; 3.2.1 Aspects of conversation analysis; 3.2.2 Deviant case analysis in conversation analysis; 3.2.3 The use of recorded data in conversation analysis; 3.2.4 The procedures of conversation analysis.
  • 3.2.5 Applications of conversation analysis in Mandarin conversation3.3 Two types of sequences: Adjacency pairs and direction-giving sequences; 3.3.1 Adjacency pairs; 3.3.2 Direction-giving sequences; 3.4 Some preliminary concepts; 3.4.1 The turn constructional unit in Mandarin conversation; 3.4.2 Complex transition relevance places; 3.5 Summary; A Sequential Analysis of Reactive Tokens in Mandarin; 4.1 The working definition and categorization of Mandarin reactive tokens; 4.2 A sequential analysis of reactive tokens; 4.2.1 Backchannels; 4.2.2 Reactive expressions; 4.2.3 Composites.
  • 4.2.4 Repeats4.2.5 Collaborative productions; 4.2.6 Laughter tokens; 4.3 A deviant case of 'mm'; 4.4 A summary of conversational actions through reactive tokens; Displaying Levels of Recipiency through Reactive Tokens; 5.1 The role of recipients; 5.2 The concept of recipiency; 5.2.1 Recipiency and participation; 5.2.2 Recipiency and response; 5.2.3 Recipiency and affiliation; 5.2.4 Other relevant terms in relation to recipiency; 5.3 Displaying recipiency through reactive tokens as a social action; 5.4 Conversational identities as speakers and recipients.
  • 5.5 A sequential analysis of displaying levels of recipiency through reactive tokens5.5.1 Absence of displaying recipiency in the absence of reactive tokens; 5.5.2 Displaying passive recipiency through backchannels; 5.5.3 Displaying neutral recipiency through reactive expressions; 5.5.4 Displaying active recipiency through repeats and collaborative productions; 5.5.5 Displaying affiliative recipiency through laughter tokens; Selection of Reactive Tokens in Information Mismatch Sequences; 6.1 Information mismatch sequences; 6.2 Type I: Label change.