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A Conversation Analytic Study of Right as a Response Particle in US English
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- Issue Date
- 2024-01
- Citation
- SNU Working papers, Vol. 20
- Keywords
- right ; response particle ; conversation analysis ; epistemics
- Abstract
- The present study is a conversation analytic (CA) investigation of the response particle right in US English. I performed sequential analysis of US English conversations in the CallHome and CallFriend datasets in the TalkBank database. The analysis revealed that the token right may be used as a second pair part, in post-expansion, and as a telling receipt, and may display varying degrees of the speakers epistemic access. Especially worth noting is that right can be employed by a speaker at an epistemic inferiority in US English, contrary to the extant claim that such a usage is characteristic of UK English. I thus conclude that right in US English is a versatile response particle whose usage is not fixed to a specific sequential position or epistemic stance.
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- English
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