Gipper, Sonja (2020). Beyond committing and presupposing in Yurakare conversations: Investigating the interactional functions of epistemic markers through their sequential distributions. Folia Linguist., 54 (2). 371 - 405. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1614-7308
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This paper outlines a method for studying the sequential distributions of epistemic markers with the purpose of gaining insight into their interactional functions. The method is exemplified with a case study of two epistemic markers of Yurakare (isolate, Bolivia), =la commitment and =se presupposition. The investigation reveals that the two markers show different distributions across initial and responsive utterances. Moreover, each marker functions differently when used in initial utterances and responses. It is argued that these distributions show that the interactional functions of the two markers go beyond the marking of commitment and presupposition, and that they contrast in terms of two scales, one capturing the poles of highly initiating and highly responsive, the other concerning high vs. low degrees of thematic agency. While the commitment marker =la is associated with the responsivity pole and with a low degree of thematic agency, the presupposition marker =se shows a tendency toward the initiating pole and toward a high degree of thematic agency. These findings then support the view that epistemic markers are employed to co-construct epistemic perspectives in interaction rather than to make explicit some internal epistemic state held by the speaker.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-324316 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1515/flin-2020-2043 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Folia Linguist. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 54 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | 371 - 405 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | BERLIN | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1614-7308 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | ||||||||
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics | ||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/32431 |
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