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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/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? > > 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. ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1