Sun-Young Oh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sun-Young Oh is involved.
Articles
2025 Production and understanding of change‑of‑state tokens in English talk‑in‑interaction among L1 and L2 speakers Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates the production and understanding of change-of-state tokens like oh and ah in English conversations among one L1 speaker and three L2 speakers. Using conversation analysis, it examines how these speakers do interactional work to achieve shared understanding through these… read more
2017 Interactional uses of acknowledgment tokens: ‘ung’ and ‘e’ as responses to multi-unit turns in Korean conversation Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 145–166 | Chapter
In this article we explore the situated meanings of two acknowledgement tokens, ung and e, in Korean conversations. We demonstrate how ung and e, which may seem interchangeable at first sight, can actually be deployed for distinct interactional functions by marking different interactional… read more
2013 Native speaker and nonnative speaker identities in repair practices of English conversation Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 36:1, pp. 20–51 | Article
Within the theoretical and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis, the present study explores the nature of the native speaker (NS) and nonnative speaker (NNS) identities in repair practices of English conversation. It has identified and analyzed in detail repair sequences in the data… read more

