Complaints and I-Mean Prefaced Utterances: Repair to Include I-Mean
Led by Prof. Doug Maynard.
When: Friday, May 2, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
Where: Phelps 2536, UCSB.
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Workshops
Description: More a workshop than a talk, this session explores the use of I-mean prefaced utterances in relation to complaint sequences in conversation. I will bring three instances in which a speaker, in the context of complaint talk, starts an utterance that would appear to embellish the complaint and that does not have an I-mean preface, and then, before completing the utterance, repairs it to include an I-mean preface. Such repairs may give some clues as to the work that I-mean does in relation to the talk in which the I-mean preface is embedded.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted April 18, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008
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