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        1.    Jan Lindström, Meta-interactional locutions
        2.    Patrick Midtlyng, Seeking Muna Article

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Message 1: Meta-interactional locutions

Date: 29-Nov-2004
From: Jan Lindström <jklindstling.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Meta-interactional locutions


Dear Colleagues,
 
 I am interested in 'meta-interactive' formula or locutions that are suited
 to address different problems in conversation, especially problems related
 to turn-taking. My question is: what kind of conventional expressions could
 be used:
 
 a) to comment on a contrubution that does not orient (properly) to a prior
 contribution; in CA-terms, a contribution that is not a recognizable
 'second' (e.g., a question seeks and answer, an evaluation seeks comment or
 agreement, etc.).
 
 b) to comment on an interruption of a speaker's turn, e.g. comments like
 'you're interrupting me!', 'it's my (his/her) turn'.
 
 I am interested in locutions and strategies dealing with the above problems
 in different languages (and cultures). Idiomatic, metaphorical, routinized
 as well as less fixed but conceivable everyday expressions are of interest.
 
 This query relates to an earlier one about formula adressing non-replies
 and which was summarized last week.
 
 Thankful for any kind of help,
 
 Jan Lindstrom
 Associate Professor
 Dept of Scandinavian languages and literature
 University of Helsinki
 Finland 
 
 Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

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Message 2: Seeking Muna Article

Date: 29-Nov-2004
From: Patrick Midtlyng <midtlynguchicago.edu>
Subject: Seeking Muna Article


Hello, 

 I am looking for a copy of Rene van den Berg's 1991 article Muna dialects
and Munic languages: Towards a reconstruction. Does anyone have a copy of
this email? Or if not, Professor van den Berg's email address? I've been
looking around for it, but have come up empty 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Muna (Language Code: MYN)
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