Publication Date
2011
Journal or Book Title
Pragmatics
Abstract
Schegloff described utterances such as “lemme ask you a question” as pre-questions, pre-pre’s or pre-delicates (Schegloff 1980). This paper provides a discussion of similar utterances in a specific institutional setting - political radio phone-in programs in Israel. The participants use these utterances in ways that are similar to Schegloff’s description. Yet, the pre-construction has additional institutional functions for the differing roles of the host and the caller. Hosts use these utterances to manage the interaction during overlaps as a means to secure an exclusive turn of talk following them. Callers use them infrequently at the beginning of their talk as story-prompts. Hosts may challenge this usage and the interactional role reversal. Regular callers can use the pre-constructions similarly to hosts. In this way, the pre-constructions in the Israeli radio phone-in programs are employed as interactional practices that relate and construct the roles in this institutional setting.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.4.02dor
Pages
527-248
Volume
21
Issue
4
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Dori-Hacohen, Gonen, ""I Have a Question for You": Practicies for Achieving Institutional Interaction in Israeli Radio Phone-In Programs" (2011). Pragmatics. 92.
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.4.02dor