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Negotiating epistemic rights to information in Korean conversation: An examination of the Korean evidential marker –tamye
This study uses conversation analysis to investigate how participants in Korean conversations negotiate their epistemic rights to information by deploying alternate evidential markers. The participants mutually monitor each other's different or changing epistemic rights to the information and routinely shift their choice of evidential markers to –tamye ('I hear, isn't it true?') to redistribute their epistemic rights. By manipulating the turn-taking and sequence organizations which underlie the –tamye evidential marker, the participants can claim or downgrade their epistemic rights to the information. The findings of this study contribute to research on evidentiality by providing an interactional perspective which takes the orientation of the participants in actual interactions as the starting point of analysis. The study illustrates how evidential markers serve to negotiate the relationships among the speaker, the hearer, and the information in the course of the interaction rather than merely function to reflect an implicit contract or territory between the speaker's and the hearer's information.
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The practice of praising one’s own child in parent-to-parent talk
This study examines an underexplored area of self-praise: parents praising their own children. An examination of a corpus of Korean telephone conversational data reveals that the act of praising one’s own child is prevalent in parent-to-parent talk despite the social and interactional constraints on behavior that might be viewed as biased or bragging. In fact, such self-praise is not always treated as interactionally problematic and is often initiated by co-participants of the talk. This conversation analytic study identifies routine features and structures of this type of selfpraise and shows when they emerge, how they are formulated and how they are responded to by recipients. The analysis shows what makes the self-praise possible or appropriate in interaction and highlights two common practices. In one, a praiseworthy matter about the speaker’s child is brought up by a co-participant, and the speaker takes the opportunity to praise the child. Thus, rather than directly praising the child, the speaker acts as an informant who is simply supplying more noteworthy details to add to the co-participant’s favorable account. In the other practice, a speaker conveys a praiseworthy matter as a piece of news about the child. By doing so, the speaker provides a rationale (informing the recipient) while at the same time eliciting the recipient’s uptake (assessment or appreciation). The study illustrates how self-praise plays an integral role in parental communities as parents engage in sharing and celebrating children’s milestones, achievements, or growth.
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How to Teach KFL Learners the Practice of Reporting the Talk of Others in Interaction
Examining the findings from conversation analysis studies that reveal the dynamic and interactive features of Korean reported talk, this article discusses how to teach KFL (Korean as a Foreign Language) learners the practice of reporting the talk of others in spontaneous interaction. It presents interaction-based instructional materials and step-by-step activities that provide opportunities for learners to become aware of the diverse designs, functions, and positions of reported talk. The article addresses how to bridge the gap between the way reported talk is taught in Korean language classrooms and the way it is actually designed and utilized by participants in social interaction.
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Evidentiality in achieving entitlement, objectivity, and detachment in Korean conversation
Evidentiality has been extensively studied in linguistics for its function in coding the source of knowledge or for expressing the speaker's attitude towards knowledge. However, few studies examine how evidential marking is sensitive and responsive to the unfolding talk and actions of the participants in social interaction. Analyzing audio and video data of naturally occurring conversations in Korean in a conversation analysis framework, this article demonstrates how the speaker often makes the choice of evidential marking or shifts the choice of evidential marking according to the participant's response, achieving certain interactional functions. The speaker makes a strategic choice to use the experiential evidential marking –telako or shifts from zero-evidential marking to overt experiential evidential marking –telako for the same proposition to achieve entitlement, objectivity, or detachment regarding his claim. This study shows that, in social interaction, the choice of the speaker's evidential marking is relative and interactively organized rather than static and predetermined.
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