Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor
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Harrie Mazeland
Abstract
This paper offers sequential-interactional and prosodic observations on the confirmation forms ja hoor/nee hoor (‘yes’+ particle hoor/ ‘no’ + hoor) in Dutch talk-in-interaction, as part of a larger analysis of the form and function of the particle hoor. We show that ja/nee hoor is used as a marked confirmation in sequentially specifiable context-types. When used as a response to queries, the speaker marks doing confirmation as programmatically motivated. When used in environments that further sequence expansion, ja/nee hoor resists such expansion. Thus, the use of ja/nee hoor is motivated by an orientation to multiple levels of discourse organization. Ja/nee hoor is associated with recurrent pitch contours which are systematically distributed across environments of use. We discuss our findings in relation to previous findings on the use of hoor in Dutch.
Abstract
This paper offers sequential-interactional and prosodic observations on the confirmation forms ja hoor/nee hoor (‘yes’+ particle hoor/ ‘no’ + hoor) in Dutch talk-in-interaction, as part of a larger analysis of the form and function of the particle hoor. We show that ja/nee hoor is used as a marked confirmation in sequentially specifiable context-types. When used as a response to queries, the speaker marks doing confirmation as programmatically motivated. When used in environments that further sequence expansion, ja/nee hoor resists such expansion. Thus, the use of ja/nee hoor is motivated by an orientation to multiple levels of discourse organization. Ja/nee hoor is associated with recurrent pitch contours which are systematically distributed across environments of use. We discuss our findings in relation to previous findings on the use of hoor in Dutch.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Preface xi
- List of contributors xix
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Introduction
- Prosody in interaction 3
- Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora 41
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Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction
- The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice 51
- Rush-throughs as social action 73
- Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81
- The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint 105
- Prosodic variation in responses 109
- Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131
- Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor 161
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Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction
- Intonation phrases in natural conversation 191
- Making units 213
- Speaking dramatically 217
- Commentating fictive and real sports 239
- Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243
- Repetition and contrast across action sequences 263
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Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction
- Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction 269
- Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures 295
- Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun 303
- Response tokens – A multimodal approach 333
- Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339
- Multimodal laughing 369
- Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373
- Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis 395
- Author index 401
- Subject index 403
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- Preface xi
- List of contributors xix
-
Introduction
- Prosody in interaction 3
- Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora 41
-
Part I. Prosody and other levels of linguistic organization in interaction
- The phonetic constitution of a turn-holding practice 51
- Rush-throughs as social action 73
- Prosodic constructions in making complaints 81
- The relevance of context to the performing of a complaint 105
- Prosodic variation in responses 109
- Retrieving, redoing and resuscitating turns in conversation 131
- Doing confirmation with ja/nee hoor 161
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Part II. Prosodic units as a structuring device in interaction
- Intonation phrases in natural conversation 191
- Making units 213
- Speaking dramatically 217
- Commentating fictive and real sports 239
- Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction 243
- Repetition and contrast across action sequences 263
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Part III. Prosody and other semiotic resources in interaction
- Communicating emotion in doctor-patient interaction 269
- Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures 295
- Multimodal expressivity of the Japanese response particle Huun 303
- Response tokens – A multimodal approach 333
- Multiple practices for constructing laughables 339
- Multimodal laughing 369
- Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia 373
- Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis 395
- Author index 401
- Subject index 403
