15.316, Books: Pragmatics: Karkkainen

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Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:02:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: Karkkainen

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Date:  Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:02:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: Karkkainen

Title: Epistemic Stance in English Conversation
Subtitle: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 115

Publication Year: 2004			
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_115

Author: Elise Kärkkäinen, University of Oulu

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114449, Pages: xii, 213 pp., Price: USD 102.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253579, Pages: xii, 213 pp., Price: EUR 85.00

Abstract:

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in
conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a
pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the
status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in
the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first
major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized
nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a
micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its
sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of
conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold
prosodic cues attendant in the speakersâEuro(tm) utterances, the study
offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also
argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes
observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent
epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse
marker.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  v
List of tables  xi
1. Introduction  1-16
2. Expression of epistemic stance: Preliminaries  17-28
3. The intonation unit as analytical unit  29-34
4. Routinization of stance marking at the linguistic and interactional level  35-103
5. Stance-taking as an interactive activity: The case of I think  105-182
6. Concluding remarks  183-187
References  189-198
Appendix  199-200
Name index  201-203
Subject index  205-207

Lingfield(s):	Pragmatics 			

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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