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benjamins.com>Title: Epistemic Stance in English Conversation Subtitle: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 115 Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_115 Author: Elise K�rkk�inen, University of Oulu Hardback: ISBN: 1588114449, Pages: xii, 213 pp., Price: USD 102.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027253579, Pages: xii, 213 pp., Price: EUR 85.00 Abstract: This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers�Euro(tm) utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker. Table of contents Acknowledgements v List of tables xi 1. Introduction 1-16 2. Expression of epistemic stance: Preliminaries 17-28 3. The intonation unit as analytical unit 29-34 4. Routinization of stance marking at the linguistic and interactional level 35-103 5. Stance-taking as an interactive activity: The case of I think 105-182 6. Concluding remarks 183-187 References 189-198 Appendix 199-200 Name index 201-203 Subject index 205-207 Lingfield(s): Pragmatics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8698.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue