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Latching/Rush-Through as a Turn-Holding Device and Its Functions in Retrospectively Oriented Pre-Emptive Turn Continuation: Findings from Mandarin Conversation
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Zhang, Wei – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article offers an interactional account of turn continuations in Chinese conversation, which are characterized as (a) being effected by latching/rush-through, (b) being clauses with predicates, either main or adverbial, and (c) taking a retrospective orientation in the kind of interactional work they do. Close examination reveals that while,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure