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Interaction between grammar and multimodal resources: quoting different characters in Korean multiparty conversation

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, USA, yujpark{at}gmail.com

This article examines the interaction between grammar and multimodal resources by analyzing reported speech in Korean multiparty face-to-face interaction. The operation of two relevancy rules — minimization and recognition in interaction — is examined together with how the absence or presence of grammar is complemented by multimodal resources of various sorts. For the analysis, three categories (self-quotation, co-party quotation and third-party quotation) are posited depending on who the quoted character is in the talk. In quoting oneself or co-participants in the talk, syntactic resources, prosody, sequential organization and embodied participant frameworks collaborate in the interactional management of the quote without overt realization of grammatical resources traditionally proposed for building quotations in Korean. The multimodal character of quoted speech is most weakly realized when quoting a non-present (third-party) character, not only because of the limitation in body and spatial resources available in the local context to recover various referential terms, but more importantly, because the interactional project that the parties are engaged in makes a distancing device such as the quotative particle -ko relevant. This study provides evidence for the intricate interaction between multimodal resources and grammar through investigation of an important realm of human interaction, that of reported speech.

Key Words: discourse analysis • Korean conversational data • Korean quotative particle • multimodal resources • reported speech

Discourse Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 79-104 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608098499


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