(Sorry. I'll start again.) Susanne Günthner's paper at IPrA (Manchester
2011) discussed a similar use of "und zwar" in German (Temporality in
Interaction: und zwar ('namely/in fact')-constructions in everyday German
conversations"). Susanne mentioned in the discussion that it was not
unusual for students to come into her office and start a conversation out
of the blue with "Und zwar"!
Paul Hopper
On Mon, November 21, 2011 11:05, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Further thoughts on utterance-initial "so" (discussing Bolden's work)
> from Mark Liberman on Language Log:
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2570
>
>
> --bgz
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Rémi Adam van Compernolle wrote:
>
>>
>> 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/abs
>> tract
>>
>> '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?
>>
>> 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!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
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