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Weatherall, AnnAffiliation
Victoria University of WellingtonIssue Date
2011-11-07Subjects
Social interaction
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The present article reports on a study of a previously underexamined type of I don't know in everyday talk. The targets were all in first position and were syntactically complete utterances that were prepositioned or preliminary to a next thing within a turn. A core of 32 instances was drawn from a much larger collection of I don't knows taken from New Zealand, British, and American English corpora. The target I don't knows were preliminary to two broad categories of actions—first assessments and approximations. The findings suggest the target I don't knows function as a prepositioned hedge—a forward-looking stance marker displaying that the speaker is not fully committed to what follows in their turn of talk.Citation
Weatherall A (2011) 'I don't know as a Prepositioned Epistemic Hedge', Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44 (4), pp.317-337.Publisher
RoutledgeAdditional Links
https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.619310Type
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enISSN
0835-1813EISSN
1532-7973ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/08351813.2011.619310
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