Displaying Recipiency
Reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2016
216 pages
978-90-272-6657-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended to address students, researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest primarily to conversation analysts and pragmaticians involved in the research on talk-in-interaction in general and Mandarin Chinese conversations in particular. The communicative aspect makes this book relevant to the areas of language use. While previous research has shown that one single reactive token has different discourse functions in different conversational environments, this study shows that participants' collaborative orientation to each other's status of displayed recipiency seems decisive for the selection of reactive tokens, rather than one specific reactive token being employed for specific conversational purposes in varying interactional contexts. This book also contributes to fields in linguistics, pragmatics, and sociology which specialize in the investigation of spontaneous human communication.
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Content
- Intro
- Displaying Recipiency
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of graphs
- Introduction
- 1.1 Aspects of conversation
- 1.2 Dichotomy in relation to reactive tokens
- 1.3 Organization of the book
- Reactive Tokens in English and Mandarin Conversation
- 2.1 Previous studies on reactive tokens
- 2.2 A survey of reactive tokens in English conversation
- 2.2.1 'Mm'
- 2.2.2 'Mm hm'
- 2.2.3 'Yeah'/'Yes'
- 2.2.4 'Uh huh'
- 2.2.5 'Oh'
- 2.2.6 'Okay'
- 2.2.7 'Right'
- 2.2.8 Confirmatory repeats
- 2.2.9 Collaborative productions
- 2.2.10 Laughter tokens
- 2.2.11 Summary
- 2.3 Reactive tokens in Mandarin conversation
- Data and Approach
- 3.1 Data collection through the map task
- 3.1.1 The map task
- 3.1.2 Settings and participants
- 3.1.3 Instruments and procedures
- 3.1.4 A summary of the data
- 3.1.5 Potential limitations of the map task
- 3.1.6 Reactive tokens in relation to the map task data
- 3.2 Approaches to data analysis
- 3.2.1 Aspects of conversation analysis
- 3.2.2 Deviant case analysis in conversation analysis
- 3.2.3 The use of recorded data in conversation analysis
- 3.2.4 The procedures of conversation analysis
- 3.2.5 Applications of conversation analysis in Mandarin conversation
- 3.3 Two types of sequences: Adjacency pairs and direction-giving sequences
- 3.3.1 Adjacency pairs
- 3.3.2 Direction-giving sequences
- 3.4 Some preliminary concepts
- 3.4.1 The turn constructional unit in Mandarin conversation
- 3.4.2 Complex transition relevance places
- 3.5 Summary
- A Sequential Analysis of Reactive Tokens in Mandarin
- 4.1 The working definition and categorization of Mandarin reactive tokens
- 4.2 A sequential analysis of reactive tokens
- 4.2.1 Backchannels
- 4.2.2 Reactive expressions
- 4.2.3 Composites
- 4.2.4 Repeats
- 4.2.5 Collaborative productions
- 4.2.6 Laughter tokens
- 4.3 A deviant case of 'mm'
- 4.4 A summary of conversational actions through reactive tokens
- Displaying Levels of Recipiency through Reactive Tokens
- 5.1 The role of recipients
- 5.2 The concept of recipiency
- 5.2.1 Recipiency and participation
- 5.2.2 Recipiency and response
- 5.2.3 Recipiency and affiliation
- 5.2.4 Other relevant terms in relation to recipiency
- 5.3 Displaying recipiency through reactive tokens as a social action
- 5.4 Conversational identities as speakers and recipients
- 5.5 A sequential analysis of displaying levels of recipiency through reactive tokens
- 5.5.1 Absence of displaying recipiency in the absence of reactive tokens
- 5.5.2 Displaying passive recipiency through backchannels
- 5.5.3 Displaying neutral recipiency through reactive expressions
- 5.5.4 Displaying active recipiency through repeats and collaborative productions
- 5.5.5 Displaying affiliative recipiency through laughter tokens
- Selection of Reactive Tokens in Information Mismatch Sequences
- 6.1 Information mismatch sequences
- 6.2 Type I: Label change
- 6.2.1 Episode One by NNSs (17 Turns): Daxingxing (???)
- 6.2.2 Episode Two by NSs (4 Turns): Chazhuang xiliu (????)
- 6.3 Type II: Absence or presence
- 6.3.1 Episode Three by NNSs (8 Turns): Shangdian (??)
- 6.3.2 Episode Four by NSs (4 Turns): Gengdi ( ?)
- 6.4 Type III: Number inconsistency
- 6.4.1 Episode Five by NNSs (21 Turns): Louti (??)
- 6.4.2 Episode Six by NSs (6 Turns): Mishide jiaobu ( ?? ?)
- 6.5 Summary
- Conclusion
- 7.1 Summary
- 7.2 Limitations and further work
- References
- Appendix
- I. Transcription symbols
- II. Transcription notations
- List of Names
- List of Subjects
