Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A Description of Its Interactional Functions, with a Focus on I Think
(Book #115 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)
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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 speakers' 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1588114449
ISBN13:9781588114440
Release Date:December 2003
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Length:213 Pages
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