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dc.contributor.authorWeatherall, Ann
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T09:36:03Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05T09:36:03Z
dc.date.issued2011-11-07
dc.identifier.citationWeatherall A (2011) 'I don't know as a Prepositioned Epistemic Hedge', Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44 (4), pp.317-337.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0835-1813
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08351813.2011.619310
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/625730
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.619310en_US
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectSocial interactionen_US
dc.titleI don't know as a prepositioned epistemic hedgeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1532-7973
dc.contributor.departmentVictoria University of Wellingtonen_US
dc.identifier.journalResearch on Language and Social Interactionen_US
dc.date.updated2023-04-05T09:20:21Z
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