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RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 171-193Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2018.1449449
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Response particles manage intersubjectivity. This conversation analytic study describes German eben (exactly). With eben, speaker A locally agrees with the immediately prior turn of B (the confirmable) and establishes a second indexical link: A relates B's confirmable to a position A herself had already displayed (the anchor). Through claiming temporal priority, eben speakers treat a just-formulated position as self-evident and mark independence. Further evidence for the three-part structure anchor-confirmable-eben that eben sets in motion retrospectively comes from instances where eben speakers supply a missing/opaque anchor via a postpositioned display of independent access. Data are in German with English translation.
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