自然会话中“是吧”的互动功能及其认识状态

The interactional function of shiba and its epistemic status in Chinese daily conversation

本文从互动语言学的视角出发,基于总时长21小时的自然会话语料,考察“是吧”在自然口语中的互动功能。“是吧”在会话中除了有请求证实、寻求认同等疑问功能之外,还浮现出回应反馈、维持注意等多种非疑问用法。文章首先描述“是吧”在自然会话中所处的话轮序列位置,然后考察“是吧”的互动功能,最后讨论交际双方认识状态对“是吧”互动功能的影响。研究表明,“是吧”的互动功能对序列位置与交际双方认识状态具有敏感性。

This study explores the interactional functions of shiba(是吧)in Chinese daily conversation from an interactional linguistic perspective.An examination of the data shows that,in addition to acting as a tag question for the speaker to seek confirmation and alignment,some new interactional functions of shibahave emerged,such as response feedback.attention maintainer and so on.This article first describes the turn position and sequence position of shiba in natural conversation then explores some in teractional functions of shiba,and finally,the influence of the epistemic status on the interactional functions of shiba is discussed.This study reveals that the interactional functions of shiba is sensitive to the sequence position and is influenced by the epistemic status of the interlocutors.