Recalibrating the context for reported speech and thought
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Trine Heinemann
Trine Heinemann (D.Phil., University of York) is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki. Her current research focuses primarily on how speakers of Danish indicate that they have undergone a change-of-state. She is also working on requests and assessments in an American shoe repair shop (with Barbara Fox) and on the action-implications of imperatives in Danish (with Jakob Steensig).
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Johannes Wagner
Johannes Wagner (Dr.Phil., Odense University) is a Professor in the Department for Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include second language conversations, learning processes in interaction, and the role of objects in interaction. He is currently working on two projects,
Social Objects for Interaction and Learning (social-objects.net) funded by the VELUX foundation 2014–2017 andLanguage Learning in the Wild (languagelearninginthewild.com), currently funded as a research network by the Nordic Research Council (NOS-HS).
Abstract
This paper investigates how speakers who are about to produce, or in the midst of producing, reported speech and thought (RT), temporarily abandon the production of RT to include other material. Using Conversation Analysis, we identify three positions in which RT is abandoned temporarily and describe the resources employed by speakers to make recognizable to the recipient that what is about to be produced is something other than the projected RT. We then demonstrate how such inclusions are done to recalibrate the larger context of RT, to ensure that the recipient of RT is able to interpret the speaker’s underlying interactional project. We conclude by discussing how the inclusions we have identified and described relate to other practices that can be employed by speakers to adjust the design of talk in ways that best scaffold the interactional purpose of that talk.
About the authors
Trine Heinemann (D.Phil., University of York) is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki. Her current research focuses primarily on how speakers of Danish indicate that they have undergone a change-of-state. She is also working on requests and assessments in an American shoe repair shop (with Barbara Fox) and on the action-implications of imperatives in Danish (with Jakob Steensig).
Johannes Wagner (Dr.Phil., Odense University) is a Professor in the Department for Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include second language conversations, learning processes in interaction, and the role of objects in interaction. He is currently working on two projects, Social Objects for Interaction and Learning (social-objects.net) funded by the VELUX foundation 2014–2017 and Language Learning in the Wild (languagelearninginthewild.com), currently funded as a research network by the Nordic Research Council (NOS-HS).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Represented talk across activities and languages
- Recalibrating the context for reported speech and thought
- Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives
- Reconstructing misinterpretation and misrepresentation through represented talk in Korean conversation
- Direct reported speech in storytellings: Enacting and negotiating epistemic entitlements
- “You said that?”: Other-initiations of repair addressed to represented talk
- Localizing humor through parodying white voice in Hawai‘i stand-up comedy
- Commentary: RT and the dramatization of everyday life
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Represented talk across activities and languages
- Recalibrating the context for reported speech and thought
- Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives
- Reconstructing misinterpretation and misrepresentation through represented talk in Korean conversation
- Direct reported speech in storytellings: Enacting and negotiating epistemic entitlements
- “You said that?”: Other-initiations of repair addressed to represented talk
- Localizing humor through parodying white voice in Hawai‘i stand-up comedy
- Commentary: RT and the dramatization of everyday life
