Temporal Inferences in Conversation

• Authors: Christine Paul
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Within this article, I explore how coproductions (expansions made by a second speaker upon a previous utterance) and questions regarding prior utterances work to verbalize inferences regarding the temporal information in spoken German conversation. While questions regarding prior utterances and coproductions are traditionally understood to have different communicative functions (signaling understanding/ misunderstanding; turn taking) to coproductions, empirical data shows how these expression types enable the speaker to gradually verbalize different strengths of assumption about details of the previous turn. These two expression types are not a dichotomy, but a continuum.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 77-92

Dates

published

2011-12-01

online

2012-01-02

Contributors

author

Christine Paul

• Free University, Berlin, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10015-011-0021-1