ABSTRACT

As a type of response token that involves emotional displays, interjections have received a substantial amount of scholarly interest in linguistics. Yet a paucity of research focuses on how emotion is displayed via interjections in interactions in situ. This article focuses on how surprise and other associated emotions are accomplished via wow in Mum’s turn when interacting with the child. Using Conversation Analysis and prosody analysis, we show three major functions of wow in mothers’ turns: showing/inviting alignment and affiliation, indicating high and low engagement, and making compliments. Importantly, we argue that although affiliation-invitation/display is a generic function of wow, it could be designed as part and parcel of other actions, indicating that something more is going on here. Data are in English.

摘要

作为一种涉及情感表现的反应标记，感叹词已经引起了对语言学的大量学术兴趣。然而，很少有研究关注情感是如何通过现场互动中的感叹词来表达的。本文重点介绍当妈妈与孩子互动时，惊喜和其他相关情绪是如何通过“哇”来实现的。使用对话分析和韵律分析，我们展示了轮到母亲时哇的三个主要功能：显示/邀请对齐和从属关系，指示高参与度和低参与度，以及赞美。重要的是，我们认为虽然 affiliation-invitation/display 是wow的通用功能，它可以被设计为其他动作的一部分，表明这里正在发生更多的事情。数据为英文。