Galina Bolden has a nice analysis of 'so' prefacing from a
conversation analysis perspective:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00314.x/abstract
'So' prefacing is found to be used for other-attentiveness. SO... this
may be relevant to the discussion of interviews? Might be interesting
to take a CA perspective for the study of variation, no?
RAvC
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Apologies if that link took some people to the beginning of the Today
> programme, not directly to the relevant segment. I had appended the link
> with the right time signature (the '?t=1h44m52s' bit at the end of the URL),
> but it might break for some people out there. The interwebs have a way of
> messing these things about.
>
> So what you need to do, if that's the case, is just scroll the time bar to
> 1hr 44mins 52secs into the programme, and you'll hear the head-scratching
> conversation in all its glory.
>
> For those still having trouble, allow me to briefly summarise. The
> conversation was between a BBC presenter and some sort of clueless pundit
> about the apparently increasing use of sentence-initial discourse marker
> _so_, in responses to questions in news interviews. Nobody thought to
> consult, y'know, one of them linguists.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Dave
>
>
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>
> On 21/11/2011 15:20, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> On Nov 21, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Dave Sayers wrote:
>
> Some desperate scrambling around for explanations going on here:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b017c9zz/?t=1h44m52s
>
> Variationists! Consider this a clarion call. Your services are needed...
>
> apparently what Dave Sayers is pointing us to is a segment on
> sentence-initial discourse marker _so_. but it's so far into the
> program(me) that i didn't have the patience to wait for it.
>
> a summary of the discussion would have been useful.
>
> note that the broadcast will be available only for a week.
>
> arnold
>
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