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Chapter 3. OKAY in responding and claiming understanding

  • Emma Betz und Arnulf Deppermann
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OKAY across Languages
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Abstract

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.

Abstract

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.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Data and methods used in the study of OKAY across languages 29
  6. Generic sequential uses of OKAY across languages
  7. Chapter 3. OKAY in responding and claiming understanding 55
  8. Chapter 4. OKAY in closings and transitions 93
  9. OKAY in specific languages
  10. Chapter 5. The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English 131
  11. Chapter 6. Rising OKAY in third position in Danish talk-in-interaction 175
  12. Chapter 7. OKAY as a response to informings in Finnish 205
  13. Chapter 8. When OKAY is repeated 235
  14. OKAY in specific activities and settings
  15. Chapter 9. OKAY in health helpline calls in Brazil 269
  16. Chapter 10. A resource for action transition 301
  17. Chapter 11. OKAY projecting embodied compliance to directives 337
  18. Chapter 12. Coordination of OKAY, nods, and gaze in claiming understanding and closing topics 363
  19. Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 395
  20. Bibliography 401
  21. Name index 433
  22. Subject index 437
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.03bet

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. Data and methods used in the study of OKAY across languages 29
  6. Generic sequential uses of OKAY across languages
  7. Chapter 3. OKAY in responding and claiming understanding 55
  8. Chapter 4. OKAY in closings and transitions 93
  9. OKAY in specific languages
  10. Chapter 5. The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English 131
  11. Chapter 6. Rising OKAY in third position in Danish talk-in-interaction 175
  12. Chapter 7. OKAY as a response to informings in Finnish 205
  13. Chapter 8. When OKAY is repeated 235
  14. OKAY in specific activities and settings
  15. Chapter 9. OKAY in health helpline calls in Brazil 269
  16. Chapter 10. A resource for action transition 301
  17. Chapter 11. OKAY projecting embodied compliance to directives 337
  18. Chapter 12. Coordination of OKAY, nods, and gaze in claiming understanding and closing topics 363
  19. Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols 395
  20. Bibliography 401
  21. Name index 433
  22. Subject index 437
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