Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1989. 19/3. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 19)

M. Deli, Ágnes: On the functions of Oack-ChanneLing

of the first speaker's reaction to the second speaker's ('A") backchanelling seems to be even more obvious in example (19) below (see utterances 855-9) (19) A 852 they always ^ sort of /> 7^ PRECEOED a their REMARKS* 853 with «things^ //this so

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T so to speak ** ^ >A 855 ** yes it //IS j //ISN'T it a]«** - 857 //YES 9 \i c ii J 858 //YES® - - 059 //YES 63 - S.1.3 Restatements by the second speakers in the above cases seem to Jx? called forth by the first speakers' hunting for the ri«jht word. Similarly to sentence completion restatements themselves may have «pite strong elicitative force and stimulate the first speaker to confirm the listener's interpretation (cf. (16) and (19) )„ In view of its function the restatement uttered by 'c' irt (19) can bn regarded nn a »mvo similar to checking-up (cf„ Stenström 1904:8á), where the functional gloss to c's restatement could be "do you mean...?" or "do 1 understand you correctly?". This assumption is endorsed by the fact that 'A' (855-7) finds it necessary to provide confirmation. To sum up what the first part of this study has'set out, we have discovered that some feedback signals such as certain restatements and sentence completions e.g. seems to go beyond the phatic function of back-channelling. They affect the first speaker's contribution, and as such operate as what we would call pseudo-turns

, Vte also assume that there are bordeline cases when back-channel items also function as means of agreement (see partial repetition in (15) and CCH-s in (20) ).