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Less than Confirming, and Doing More than That : Comparing Responses to Requests for Confirmation in German and Yurakaré

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Gipper, Sonja ; Groß, Alexandra:
Less than Confirming, and Doing More than That : Comparing Responses to Requests for Confirmation in German and Yurakaré.
In: Contrastive Pragmatics. Bd. 5 (2024) Heft 1-2 . - S. 347-391.
ISSN 2666-0393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10100

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Abstract

In this paper, we compare practices of formulating responses to requests for confirmation oriented toward confirmation but doing less or more than that in German and Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia). The German particle joa is identified as a versatile resource for navigating the functional spectrum of such responses, being deployed for less than confirming in terms of epistemic or propositional downgrading, and for more than confirming in terms of addressing terms of questions or a confirmable’s valence. When exercising these specific tasks, speakers of Yurakaré, in contrast, rely mostly on repetitional strategies, while a highly specialised particle constitutes an ‘escape strategy’ when a repeat would convey unwanted implications. We propose that doing less and more than confirming is contingent on a more fundamental distinction: a preference for particles (German) vs. repeats (Yurakaré) in the realm of plain confirmation, which carries over to responses doing less and more than confirming.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: confirmation; terms and agendas of questions; repeats; response particles; response possibility space
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Germanistische Linguistik > Lehrstuhl Germanistische Linguistik - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karin Birkner
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Germanistische Linguistik
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 400 Sprache > 400 Sprachwissenschaft
400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik
400 Sprache > 430 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein
400 Sprache > 490 Andere Sprachen
Eingestellt am: 16 Okt 2023 08:06
Letzte Änderung: 27 Mai 2024 12:00
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/87200