Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-11 DOI:10.1515/text-2020-0154
Xiaoting Li, Yaqiong Liu
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Abstract “VP/AP + (dek)le + AP/VP” is a predicative complement construction in Shanghai Wu Chinese (SWC) with (dek)le being the complement marker. In everyday SWC conversation, the terminal complement is often dropped, forming the Truncated Predicative Complement Construction (TPCC): “AP + (dek)le”. The data for the present study are approximately 4.5 h of naturalistic SWC face-to-face conversations. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, we explore the interactional functions of the TPCC in the SWC conversational data. We find that TPCCs after the possible closure of a topic are deployed to initiate a new topic in two ways: initiating a disjunctive topic shift, and changing to a topic that is connected to a prior one. The findings demonstrate that TPCCs are routinized grammatical patterns accomplishing the conversational action of initiating new topics in SWC conversation.
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截断表语补语结构“AP+(dek)le”在上海吴汉语会话中的交互作用
摘要“VP/AP+(dek)le+AP/VP”是上海吴语的一个表语补语结构,其补语标记为(dek,le)。在日常SWC会话中,词尾补语经常被丢弃,形成了截断谓词补语结构(TPCC):“AP+(dek)le”。本研究的数据是大约4.5小时的自然SWC面对面对话。采用会话分析和互动语言学的方法,探讨了TPCC在SWC会话数据中的互动功能。我们发现,在一个主题可能结束后,TPCC通过两种方式被部署来启动一个新的主题:启动析取主题转移,以及更改为与先前主题相连的主题。研究结果表明,TPCC是SWC会话中完成启动新话题的会话动作的常规化语法模式。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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