ABSTRACT

Clicks are velarically initiated ingressive stops. This study investigates the interactional uses of clicks in approximately 12 hours of Mandarin face-to-face conversations. It focuses on the TCU-medial clicks that occur in a type of action repair: a syntactically incomplete TCU followed by a click and the start of a new TCU. The click-initiated action repair changes the projected trajectories of actions-in-progress. It seems to be used to deal with two types of problems: the social and interactional inappositeness and sensitivity of the speaker’s ongoing action shown through coparticipants’ visually displayed orientations, and the speaker’s own change of state. This study adds to our knowledge about the types of practices that may be used to accomplish repair and the types of problems that the action repair may be mobilized to deal with. Data are in Mandarin Chinese with English translation.

摘要

咔嗒声是从平面上开始的侵入式止动。这项研究调查了大约12小时的普通话面对面对话中点击的交互作用。它着重于一种动作修复中发生的TCU中间点击：语法上不完整的TCU，然后是点击和新TCU的开始。单击启动的动作修复会更改正在进行的动作的预计轨迹。它似乎用于处理两种类型的问题：通过参与者的视觉显示方向显示的说话者正在进行的动作的社交和互动不适当性以及敏感性，以及说话者自身的状态变化。这项研究增加了我们对可用于完成维修的实践类型以及可能需要动员解决的问题类型的知识。