Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions

Ogden, Richard; Walker, Traci

doi:10.1075/slsi.25.09ogd

In:Units of Talk – Units of Action
Edited by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and Geoffrey Raymond
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 25] 2013
► pp. 277–312

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Phonetic resources in the construction of social actions

Richard Ogden | University of York

Traci Walker | University of York

Published online: 22 October 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.25.09ogd

This chapter considers the role of phonetic resources in making three kinds of offers as explored in Curl (2006). It is shown that offers have no particular phonetic properties of their own, but that instead phonetics is used to handle matters relating to sequence-management and turn-taking. Certain types of action have phonetic exponents, and map on to phonological units, while others do not. It is argued that the traditional units of phonology treat individuals as lone speakers rather than as interactants; giving interaction a role in the design of turns at talk changes the nature of grammar to a more cognitively distributed one.

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