32.1340, Books: OKAY across Languages: Betz, Deppermann, Mondada, Sorjonen (eds.)

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Subject: 32.1340, Books: OKAY across Languages: Betz, Deppermann, Mondada, Sorjonen (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:33:45
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: OKAY across Languages: Betz, Deppermann, Mondada, Sorjonen (eds.)

 


Title: OKAY across Languages 
Subtitle: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction 
Series Title: Studies in Language and Social Interaction 34  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.34 


Editor: Emma Betz
Editor: Arnulf Deppermann
Editor: Lorenza Mondada
Editor: Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260284 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260284 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260284 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208156 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208156 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208156 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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