Elise Kärkkäinen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elise Kärkkäinen is involved.

Title

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think

Elise Kärkkäinen

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… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.

Articles

Keisanen, Tiina and Elise Kärkkäinen 2014 A multimodal analysis of compliment sequences in everyday English interactions Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, Laury, Ritva, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 649–672 | Article

This study offers a multimodal analysis of turns in everyday English interactions that are used for making compliments, i.e. for positively evaluating the appearance, personal qualities or actions of (a) co-present participant(s) in the present situation. We first identify the most frequent… read more

Kärkkäinen, Elise 2010 Review of Rühlemann (2007): Conversation in Context. A Corpus-driven Approach Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 113–125 | Review

Kärkkäinen, Elise 2007 The role of I guess in conversational stancetaking Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 183–219 | Article