From Receipt of Information to Management of Interaction: The Use of Zheyangzi as a Response Token in Chinese Conversation

從資訊接收標記到人際互動調節：「這樣子」在中文會話做為回應標記之用法探究

謝承諭(Chen-Yu Chester Hsieh)

《Concentric： Studies in Linguistics》 43卷2期 (2017/11) Pp. 87-118

https://doi.org/10.6241/concentric.ling.43.2.04

摘要

The current study aims to investigate the information receipt particle zheyangzi (ZYZ) in Taiwan Mandarin conversation. Adopting an Interactional Linguistics approach to spoken data, I show that ZYZ tends to co-occur with particular preceding and suffixing particles within the same turn and that the use of particles may to some extent influence the design of the next turn. Moreover, I argue that ZYZ serves three major interactional functions other than information receipting and that the sequential environment in which it is deployed exerts a significant influence over how the particle is understood and reacted to by interlocutors. The meaning of ZYZ is thus dynamically negotiated and co-constructed through talk-in-interaction.

關鍵字

zheyangzi ； response token ； receipt of information ； sequential context

並列摘要

本文旨在研究「這樣子」在臺灣中文對話中，作為資訊接收標記之功能與用法。基於口語語料庫的資料與互動語言學的方法，筆者指出常與「這樣子」在同一話輪共現之前後標記，以及如此的回應標記對於下一話輪設計與構成上的影響。除此之外，本研究也發現「這樣子」除了作為資訊接收的回應標記之外，在不同的語境中，另外具有三大互動功能，包含鼓勵聽話者延續其言談，標記話題或行動上的改變，以及暗示對話者修正其言談。而聽話者如何理解與反應「這樣子」這個回應標記，則深深受到上文語境的影響。由此可知，「這樣子」作為資訊接收標記的功能與意義是在互動當中，不斷協商、共建而成。

並列關鍵字

這樣子 ； 回應標記 ； 資訊接受 ； 上下語境

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