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Inhalt: 1 Einleitung 2 Datengrundlage für die vorliegende Fallstudie :Erstkontaktgespräche im Vergleich 2.1 Vorbemerkungen 2.2 Präsentation der Vergleichs-Gespräche 3 Vergleichende Analyse der Gespräche 3.1 Die Gesprächseröffnung und der Beginn der Anliegensbehandlung im Vergleich 3.2 Themenentwicklung und Fokussierungsabfolge im Vergleich 4 Fazit
Sequences from natural conversations, which are in ethnomethodological conversational analysis analyzed as "other-initiated self-repair", are here described as sequences in which participants manifest and treat local problems of understanding. This approach, which takes participants' perspectives into account, shows that these sequences have a detailed internal structure: - Participants use different types of problem manifestation to signal different types of problems of understanding; syntactic and prosodic cues are used as type-differentiating devices in problem manifestation; for different types of problems different assumptions with respect to the degree of reciprocity can be reconstructed as underlying problem manifestation and problem treatment. - There is a relation of conditional relevance holding between specific types of problem manifestation and specific types of problem treatment. - Problem types are ordered in relation to each other in terms of preference structures. Thus, an analysis which takes participants' perspectives into account and which looks more closely at linguistic signalling cues allows to differentiate between various types of internal structures within so-called repair sequences.
After a review of previous work on the prosody of emotional involvement, data extracts from natural conversations are analyzed in order to argue for the constitution of an 'emphatic (speech) style', which linguistic devices are used to signal heightened emotive involvement. Participants use prosodic cues, in co-occurrence with syntactic and lexical cues, to contextualize turn-constructional units as 'emphatic'. Only realizations of prosodic categories that are marked in relation to surrounding uses of these categories have the power to contextualize units as displaying 'more-than-normal involvement'. In the appropriate context, and in cooccurrence with syntactic and lexical cues and sequential position, the context-sensitive interpretation of this involvement is 'emphasis'. Prosodic marking is used in addition to various unmarked cues that signal and constitute different activity types in conversation. Emphatic style highlights and reinforms particular conversational activities, and makes certain types of recipient responses locally relevant. In particular, switches from non-emphatic to emphatic style are used to contextualize 'peaks of involvement' or 'climaxes' in story-telling. These are shown in the paper to be 'staged' by speakers and treated by recipients as marked activities calling for displays of alignment with respect to the matter at hand. Signals of emphasis are deployable as techniques for locally organizing demonstrations of shared understanding and participant reciprocity in conversational interaction.
Inhalt: 1. Einleitung 2. Zur jüngeren Forschungsgeschichte 3. Analyse der Voranstellungen vor den Satz im Deutschen 3.1. Struktur der Voranstellungen vor den Satz 3.1.1. Linksversetzung 3.1.2. ,Freies Thema' 3.1.3. Das Problem der sauberen Abgrenzung der beiden Konstruktionen 3.2. Funktionen der Voranstellungen 3.2.1. Linksversetzungen 3.2.2. Freie Themen 3.2.3. Von der erwartbaren Verwendung „abweichende Fälle" 4. Fazit
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(1997)