I don't know as a prepositioned epistemic hedge
dc.contributor.author | Weatherall, Ann | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-05T09:36:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-05T09:36:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-11-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Weatherall 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.issn | 0835-1813 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/08351813.2011.619310 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10547/625730 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.619310 | en_US |
dc.rights | Green - can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Social interaction | en_US |
dc.title | I don't know as a prepositioned epistemic hedge | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1532-7973 | |
dc.contributor.department | Victoria University of Wellington | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2023-04-05T09:20:21Z | |
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