In:(Non)referentiality in Conversation
Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 344] 2024
► pp. 205–209
Subject index
Published online: 1 August 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.344.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.344.si
A
A
- action-centered approach198
- ad hoc expressions 141–2 ; see also NPs (noun phrases), novel
- adjacency pairs41
- adult-child dialogues
8, 80–3, 97–9
- adult discourse in 81, 89–92, 99
- corpus of 84–9
- use of noun phrases in 89–97
- affiliative stance 183, 192
- allusion, in Indonesian 15–16, 21, 27, 31
- allusive reference 12, 14–21, 23–4, 30–2, 124, 127n4
- ambiguity, referential 29–30
- anaphora
4–5
- in ordinary language philosophy124
- zerosee zero pronominalization
- anaphoric reference 94, 126, 129
- antecedents, and indeterminate reference 126–7, 133
- apodosis76
- argumentation, and second person generic expressions 179, 186–95
- Arkisyn corpus 39, 57, 66
- articles, definite/indefinite83
- assessments 35, 41, 51, 142, 156
- association preference196
- audience diversity5
B
- bonding, social 141–2, 163
- boundedness72
- buildups195
C
- CallFriend corpus169
- candidate understanding 68, 181
- cataphoric reference125
- CEJC (Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation) 143–4
- child language 80–4
- child-directed speech92
- children, use of noun phrases 84–9, 92–4, 97–8 ; see also adult-child dialogues
- clustering 42, 167, 170, 172–4, 174, 178, 194–5, 198
- co-construction 83, 97, 99
- common ground 15–16, 31, 123
- communicative experience81
- complementizer50
- complex informing 179–83, 192–4
- conditional clauses 74–5
- confirmation questions 154–5
- consciousness, of speaker and listener4
- context: clear from
16, 19, 21
- and referentiality 2–3
- contextualization cues, multimodal8
- controversial subject matter 7, 195
- Conversation Analysis 5, 40, 58, 167–8, 176, 195
- conversation flow 111, 177
- conversational contexts 5, 58, 167, 198
- Cooperative Principle 105–6
- corpus: of adult-child dialogues
84–9
- Arkisyn 39, 57, 66
- CallFriend169
- CEJC 143–4
- of Finnish 39, 57, 66
- cultural knowledge 128, 136
- curiosity principle196
D
- de-embodiment 156, 162–3
- definite determiners 83, 90–1, 127
- definiteness 1, 3
- deictic field48
- deictic shifts 40, 45
- deixis: and context2
- Mayan5
- in ordinary language philosophy124
- Deixis am Phantasma 47, 71
- demonstrative pronouns 21, 90, 95, 126–8
- denoting phrases 1–2
- determiners: children’s use of
82–3, 85, 90–1, 97
- and raha61
- dialogical sequences, identifying 84–9
- dialogue: in development of child language
89–92
- everydaysee everyday conversation
- reported 45, 51
- values of NPs 94–7
- disagreement sequences 183, 188–9, 192
- discourse, reference in 3–4
- discourse context 21, 31, 143
- discourse referentiality 4, 13–14, 16–17, 22–3, 26
- discourse roles 35, 38, 51
- discourse-functional research tradition58
- discursive space 81, 97
- disfluencies135
- divisible nouns 56, 58–9, 67, 72
- dramatic function 168, 170
- dramatization 26–7
E
- ellipsis 12, 14–15, 103–4, 119
- embodied conduct 36, 45–8, 47, 51
- embodiment 141, 149, 156, 162–3
- Emergent Grammar58
- English: pronoun ellipsis in104
- referential specificity in 124, 126, 136
- second person pronoun 38, 168, 195
- use of generic expressions193
- e-NPs 64–5
- epistemic stance197
- epistemic status 70, 148, 179, 183, 186
- Ethnomethodology 195–6
- everyday conversation
1, 76
- ad hoc expressions in142
- children’s 80–1, 89–92
- indeterminacy and fluidity of reference in 123–36
- in Indonesiansee Indonesian colloquial conversation
- in Japanese 103, 108–20
- in Mandarin Chinesesee Mandarin Chinese conversation
- everyday interactions: corpus analysis of83
- first and second person forms in38
- organization of58
- everyday talk-in-interaction 4, 169, 176
- existential utterances 94–6
- explicit reference
12, 24–30
- and children’s use of NPs95
- and silent reference 106, 113, 119
F
- fairly clear continuity22
- filler syllables 85–6, 90
- Finnish
6, 24
- corpora of 39, 57, 66
- ‘money’ insee raha
- person forms in 35–7, 39–41, 40
- referentiality in61
- first and second person forms: in Finnish corpus
39–40
- linguistic features and embodied conduct 45–8
- and open reference 35–8
- and participation framework 38–9, 48–51
- sequential contexts 41–4
- fixed expressions 63, 107
- fluid generality 28–30
- fluidity of reference
6, 8, 12–13, 31–2
- in everyday conversation 124, 128–36, 168
- and explicit referents 27–30
- and indeterminate reference 21–3
- footing: change in
7, 24–30, 38–9, 45, 48, 51
- referentiality and 12, 24, 32
- frame semantics 103, 105–8, 110, 113, 115, 119–20
- French: determiners in85
- indefinite pronouns 168, 175
- frequent occurrences 31, 81
G
- generality
4, 12–14
- limited 51–2, 167, 175, 195–8
- locally conditioned 172, 174–6, 178, 194–5
- shift in 21, 31
- generalizations 5, 7, 26–7
- generalized reference168
- generic expressions36
- association across speakers194
- in less dominant conversations178
- and primary speaker roles177
- second person 167–70, 178–96
- truncated181
- word for ‘person’ or ‘man’ becoming75
- generic statements: in Finnish
37, 63
- forceful nature of195
- in Indonesian 23, 30
- in Mandarin Chinese 175, 183–4
- as rhetorical device197
- genericity 52, 60–1, 192n6
- givenness 4, 13
- glossing conventions202
- grammar: multimodal approach to142
- shaped by use 57–8
- grammatical puns161
H
- hand gestures, Japanese use of 148–9, 153–4, 159–63
- hearers, roles of 38–9
- high transitivity contexts72
- honorifics 116–17, 119
- hypothetical reference24
- hypothetical situations 43–6
I
- iconicity4
- identifiability 3–4, 13, 58, 67
- identity, continuity of 3, 6, 13, 56, 67–8
- imperfective verbs 59, 66
- impersonal pronouns 35–6, 75–6, 168, 170, 172, 175
- incongruent stancessee stance, congruence
- indefinite determiners 83, 85, 97
- indefinite pronouns 168, 170, 175
- indefiniteness, quantitative 58–9
- indeterminacy of reference
12–13, 31–2, 107, 123
- in child language 80–1, 83, 94, 96
- in everyday conversation 125–8, 132–5
- and explicit reference24
- and fluidity23
- and inferability 108, 110–11
- particular 17–19
- of pronominal forms124
- in sequence 19–21
- as unproblematic 6–8
- indexical expressions
5, 196–7
- indeterminate 127–8
- Indonesian7
- Indonesian colloquial conversation
7, 11–13
- allusive reference 14–23, 124
- explicit reference 24–30
- referentiality in 31–2
- inferables
103, 105, 119–20
- ambiguous 116–17
- ensuring specific 117–19
- indeterminate 108–13
- latent resolution of 113–16
- inferentiality 107–19
- information flow
4, 6
- and Indonesian conversation 12–13, 16, 31
- instantiation of unmentioned elements 103, 106, 110, 113, 115
- intention, speaker’s 3–4
- interaction: and language acquisition83
- and referentiality 4–8
- interactional demands 167, 198
- interactional functions 36, 40–1, 170
- interactional linguistics
40, 58
- and interactionism81
- and novel expressions142
- interactionism81
- interactive processes 162, 194, 197
- intersubjectivity
8, 52
- and generic pronouns 169, 195
- and referential resources136
- intonation8
- intonation units 14, 143, 171, 173
- irrealis contexts 61, 63, 65, 71–2, 75–6
J
- Japanese
8, 103
- allusive reference in 15–16, 103–10, 120, 124
- creation of novel expressions 142–62
K
- kinesic movements, narrative45
- knowledge, shared 16, 85, 93
L
- labelling 15, 80–1, 84, 88, 92, 94–8
- language acquisition 80, 82–3
- language development 86, 98
- language habits2
- laughter: in Finnish conversation
70–1, 74
- in Japanese word creation 8, 154, 157, 161–3
- limited statements 174, 195
- linguistic knowledge, general106
- lists, turning into unified NP 150–6
- logicians 1–2
- low transitivity contexts66
M
- Mandarin Chinese7
- second person expressions in 42, 51, 168–9
- Mandarin Chinese conversation
169–97
- general broad patterns in 172–8
- limited generality 195–7
- preference for clusters 194–5
- manipulation: of referentiality
141–2, 163–4
- of speaker perspectives195
- Maxim of Quantity 106–7
- Maya5
- meaning, construction of82
- metalinguistic function 168, 170
- metonymic inference134
- minimization, preference for6
- modal constructions82
- money, category of 56, 61
- morals and truisms 168, 174–5, 195
- multimodal approach to grammar 142, 169
- multi-party conversation168
- Murriny Patha124
N
- negated clauses 61, 65
- NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)143
- nominal expressions 12–14, 81
- nonreferential NPs 12, 142, 162
- nonreferentiality1
- in child language 80–2, 84
- and predications57
- in use of raha 63–6, 69, 71, 74
- nonsense NPs 157, 163–4
- nonspecific reference 84, 168
- normativity168
- noun phrasessee NPs
- nouns, potential and actual2
- novel expressionssee NPs (noun phrases), novel
- NPs (noun phrases): in adult-child dialogues
80, 83–4, 89–99
- and anaphora4
- definite 1–3, 85, 89–91, 96, 128, 136
- explicit 31, 109n6, 114n7
- generic88
- indefinite 81–2, 96
- indeterminate 94–5, 98, 125–7
- isolated 85–7, 97–8
- lexical12
- novel 141–3, 148, 154, 156, 161–4
- and referentiality 30–1
- null-arguments105
O
- onomatopoeia: creating novel expressions from
7, 141, 143–9
- phrasal reanalysis of 156–7
- open reference of personal forms 35–7, 39–43, 40, 46–8, 51–2
- Ordinary Language Philosophy 123–4
- origo 35, 45, 47, 50–1
- overlap, in Japanese word creation 8, 143, 148, 157, 162
P
- participation framework
35–6, 38–40
- modulating 48–51
- partitive case, in Finnish 58–9, 61–7, 69, 71
- person reference5
- personal experience, accounts of 35, 41–3, 50–1
- personal pronouns167
- in Finnish35
- in Indonesian 15, 22, 28–30
- open reference of personal forms
- second person pronouns
- persuasion, and second person generic expressions 179, 183–6, 188–9, 192–5
- phaticness 141–2, 156, 162–3
- playfulness 7, 142, 162–3
- potential referents 104–5, 107
- potential values 91, 94, 99
- pragmatic particles 16, 148
- pragmatic skills, early 81, 97
- preceding context 89, 92–4
- predicate nominals
20, 66
- novel NPs as 142, 148–9, 154–6, 164
- predications: about money
56–7, 61–5, 69, 72, 76
- of generic statements175
- primary speakership167
- and complex informing 180–1
- in Mandarin Chinese conversation 172, 176–8, 177, 194
- and second person generic expressions 197–8
- pro-drop104
- production format38
- progressivity7
- uninterrupted 31, 128, 131, 135
- pronouns: in child language
82–3
- ellipsis of104
- in Finnish 59, 64–5, 76
- fluidity of reference 129, 131–2, 134
- in interactional sequence 4–5
- omitted15
- referential use of 3, 12, 19, 167–8
- social indexicality in 28–30
- without explicit antecedents6
- first and second person forms
- impersonal pronouns
- indefinite pronouns
- personal pronouns
- prosodic cues 192, 193
- prosody, enacted 45–6, 51
Q
- qualia theory106n2
R
- raha
56–7, 76–7
- declension of60
- in Finnish grammar 58–60
- in non-referential use 61–5
- referential uses of 65–8
- shifting use in conversation 68–76
- real-time reference 124, 196
- reanalysis, creating novel NPs through 156–62
- reconciliation 184–6, 192, 193
- reference, temporal nature of126
- referent co-construction 8, 52
- referential domain168
- referential expressions: acquisition of82
- characteristics of12
- in Conversation Analysis5
- discourse functions of105
- referential fluiditysee fluidity of reference
- referential indeterminacysee indeterminacy of reference
- referential indices 35–6, 38
- referential nouns 149, 163
- referentiality: and child language
80, 82–4, 87–9, 92–4, 97
- elusiveness of13
- and inferables105
- and inferentiality 107–19
- interactivity of 162–3
- key themes in 6–8
- and nonreferentiality 1, 6, 81–2, 89, 99
- particular and generic 24–8
- playfulness of163
- prior research on 1–6
- shifts in 6–7, 11–12, 21, 23–4, 32
- and singular-plural distinction 57, 60, 68, 76–7
- theoretical background 12–14
- referring expressions 1–4, 52, 82, 98
- referring practices 12–14, 16, 19, 23, 124
- Relevance Theory196
- repetition, intense162
- reported speech: attribution of26
- change in footing to 7, 39
- direct43
- generic pronouns in 169, 172
- markers of 45, 50–1
- resistance stance192
- response particles43
- return pop5
S
- scope of reference 37, 167–8, 175–6, 195, 198
- second person pronouns, generic use of 38, 167–70, 172–6, 174, 180, 188, 195–8 ; see also generic expressions
- semantic theory 103, 105
- sequential contexts 36, 40–2
- sequential features 41, 168
- shifters38
- shifting reference 123–4, 129–30, 132, 134–6
- silent reference 104, 120
- singular-plural distinction 56–7, 68, 72, 76
- situational insertion 168, 175
- social action1
- and indeterminacy12
- and referentiality 31–2
- social goals 6–8
- social indexicality 28–9
- sociocultural information116
- solidarity 169, 195
- spatio-temporal frames 8, 45, 51–2
- specificity
1, 13, 52
- as interactionally motivated 60–1
- shifts in8
- speech genres98
- stance: affiliative
183, 192
- congruence 7, 167, 181, 183–4, 186, 191, 197–8
- stative predicates57
- subject referents 20–1, 117
- suffixes: creating novel expressions
142, 164
- for verbal person 37, 39, 41, 59–60, 68
- switch reference, non-explicit 111–13
- syntactic arguments, unexpressed 19, 104
T
- Tagalog articles12
- thematic sequences 6, 86–7, 97–8
- third person referential categories196
- topic continuity4
- topic NPs, in Japanese 143, 146, 149–50, 155–6, 162–3
- transcription conventions 122, 201–2
- TRUST-ENSURE principle 103, 105–6
- turn-taking168
U
- uncertainty, in child language80
- understanding: demonstrating181
- network of106
- shared 72, 127
- unexpressed referents 16, 19, 136
- universal statements 174, 178, 194
V
- vantage point48
- verb tense16n2
- verbal person markers35
- voice modulation 45, 51
- voice quality50
- voices-effect, layering of51
W
- word creation 141–2
Z
- zero pronominalization 104, 107
- zero-mentioned referents71
- zero-person constructions 37, 42–4, 63, 72, 74
