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OKAY across Languages
Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction
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2021
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OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages. The collected work showcases the importance of a holistic analysis: prosodic realization and the placement of OKAY in its larger sequential and multimodal context emerge as constitutive for distinct uses in individual languages. An inductive approach makes it possible to identify practices not previously documented, for example OKAY used for ‘qualified acceptance’ or as a ‘continuer’, and to document a core of recurrent, similar uses across languages. This work also outlines new research directions for comparative analysis by offering first insights into the diachronic development of OKAY’s uses and the relationship of OKAY to other particles in specific languages.
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Wayne A. Beach, San Diego State University, in Journal of Pragmatics 190 (2022).:
This edited volume directs our attention to the kind of herculean steps necessary to achieve deeper and more pragmatic understandings of OKAYs-in-interaction across languages and cultures — an exemplary contribution examining ordinary moments in extraordinary ways.
This edited volume directs our attention to the kind of herculean steps necessary to achieve deeper and more pragmatic understandings of OKAYs-in-interaction across languages and cultures — an exemplary contribution examining ordinary moments in extraordinary ways.
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Table of contents
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. Data and methods used in the study of OKAY across languages
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Chapter 3. OKAY in responding and claiming understanding
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Chapter 4. OKAY in closings and transitions
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Chapter 5. The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English
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Chapter 6. Rising OKAY in third position in Danish talk-in-interaction
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Chapter 7. OKAY as a response to informings in Finnish
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Chapter 8. When OKAY is repeated
235 - OKAY in specific activities and settings
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Chapter 9. OKAY in health helpline calls in Brazil
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Chapter 10. A resource for action transition
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Chapter 11. OKAY projecting embodied compliance to directives
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Chapter 12. Coordination of OKAY, nods, and gaze in claiming understanding and closing topics
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Appendix. Transcription conventions and glossing symbols
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Bibliography
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Name index
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Subject index
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