In:OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction 34] 2021
► pp. 337–362
Chapter 11OKAY projecting embodied compliance to directives
Published online: 17 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.11kee
https://doi.org/10.1075/slsi.34.11kee
Abstract
This chapter on Estonian and Polish OKAY focuses
on complying responses to high entitlement directives. The responses
are built of two parts, the verbal OKAY that completes the adjacency
pair and an embodied compliance that ensues. The OKAY provides an
immediate verbal notification and acceptance of the suggested action
trajectory, which is relevant for the co-participants’ continuing
coordination of activities in progress, while the projected embodied
compliance is necessarily deferred. By looking at two genetically
and historically unrelated languages and showing a similar response
pattern in them, we hope to illustrate the general interactional
potential of the particle OKAY, and perhaps begin to understand some
of its cross-linguistic allure.
Keywords: directive sequence, compliance, embodied action, response, compliance projector, acceptance, Polish, Estonian, okay
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Directives and their (embodied) responses
- 3.The data
- 4.OKAY as a compliance projector
- 5.Trajectories of verbal-bodily compliance
- 6.Discussion
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