Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: This article seeks to contribute to the body of research on the use of perception verbs in interaction and, more specifically, to enhance the understanding of how participants in courtroom proceedings exploityou seeto manage the discourse as it unfolds and to negotiate stance. Against the background of earlier work on vision words in interaction, the study looks at parenthetical and non-parentheticalyou seeto reveal both perceptual and cognitive uses, and to identify their local pragmatic effect. As the analysis indicates, in the data at hand, lexicalyou seeis more readily recruited than non-lexicalyou see, and it is found chiefly in grammatical and declarative questions. At the same time, it is the clause-initialyou seethat visibly brings out the epistemic tensions between the speakers and serves to contest the addressee’s position. The study corroborates the claim thatyou seeis an argumentative marker, whose meaning (and force) depends on its formal properties (position, complementation) and the relationship between the speakers.
Source: Topics in Linguistics
Author: Magdalena Szczyrbak
Institution: Jagiellonian University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2954097127