Chapter 6. Complexities of responding
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Seung-Hee Lee
Abstract
This paper examines three forms of confirming responses to pseudo-tag questions in Korean conversation: unelaborated type-conforming responses with affirmative particles alone, elaborated responses with affirmative particles followed by elaboration, and nonconforming responses. The respondent’s selection of a particular form of response represents a solution to multiple contingencies involved in providing confirmation. When producing affirmative particles alone, respondents do nothing more than confirming and treat the question as in need of a mere confirmation. In producing elaborated type-conforming responses, respondents tend to avoid unwanted understandings that a simple yes particle can bring. They may address the action implemented by the question, often in affiliation with the questioner. Nonconforming responses tend to treat the question as problematic, proposing a problem with the legitimacy or relevance of the question.
Abstract
This paper examines three forms of confirming responses to pseudo-tag questions in Korean conversation: unelaborated type-conforming responses with affirmative particles alone, elaborated responses with affirmative particles followed by elaboration, and nonconforming responses. The respondent’s selection of a particular form of response represents a solution to multiple contingencies involved in providing confirmation. When producing affirmative particles alone, respondents do nothing more than confirming and treat the question as in need of a mere confirmation. In producing elaborated type-conforming responses, respondents tend to avoid unwanted understandings that a simple yes particle can bring. They may address the action implemented by the question, often in affiliation with the questioner. Nonconforming responses tend to treat the question as problematic, proposing a problem with the legitimacy or relevance of the question.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. Repetitional responses to polar questions in Russian conversation 40
- Chapter 3. Responding to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese 76
- Chapter 4. Responses to polar questions in Polish 109
- Chapter 5. Three practices for confirming inferences in French talk-in-interaction 139
- Chapter 6. Complexities of responding 179
- Chapter 7. The division of labor between the particles jah and jaa ‘yes’ as responses to requests for confirmation in Estonian 210
- Chapter 8. Code-switching, agency, and the answer possibility space of Spanish-English bilinguals 239
- Chapter 9. Post-confirmation modifications 272
- Chapter 10. Responding to polar questions without a polarity item ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Finnish 301
- Chapter 11. Renewing a social action in US primary care 328
- Chapter 12. Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor negative responses? 350
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and symbols for glossing 377
- Subject index 381
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
- Chapter 2. Repetitional responses to polar questions in Russian conversation 40
- Chapter 3. Responding to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese 76
- Chapter 4. Responses to polar questions in Polish 109
- Chapter 5. Three practices for confirming inferences in French talk-in-interaction 139
- Chapter 6. Complexities of responding 179
- Chapter 7. The division of labor between the particles jah and jaa ‘yes’ as responses to requests for confirmation in Estonian 210
- Chapter 8. Code-switching, agency, and the answer possibility space of Spanish-English bilinguals 239
- Chapter 9. Post-confirmation modifications 272
- Chapter 10. Responding to polar questions without a polarity item ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Finnish 301
- Chapter 11. Renewing a social action in US primary care 328
- Chapter 12. Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor negative responses? 350
- Appendix. Transcription conventions and symbols for glossing 377
- Subject index 381
