Prompting Action: The Stand-Alone "So" in Ordinary Conversation

By Geoffrey Raymond. 2004

299 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Locating cognition in second language interaction and learning: Inside the skull or in public view? (2009, background): “Yet when Chung does not take a turn after a 1 second gap, Tom selfselects again with a “stand-alone” “so” (Raymond 2004).”
“So What's Up?”: Using the Discourse Marker So to Launch Conversational Business (2008, background): “21 “So” in line 9 is an instance of a stand-alone so used to prompt the recipient to produce the next relevant action—here, arguably, an upshot of the preceding sequence (Raymond, 2004).”
‘Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk (2010, methodology): “For example, formulating an upshot or gist of the prior talk (Heritage and Watson, 1979; Raymond, 2004) may be a practice for closing a course of action (Schegloff, 2007); formulating what the conversation has been about may be used to invite a newcomer to join the conversation or, alternatively, to”
Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation (2011, background): “Initially, Ziva solicits a defense of Leah’s account with stand-alone ‘‘So:’’ (line 14; Raymond, 2004), which characterizes Leah’s account as being insufficient.”
Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers “So” and “Oh” and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction (2006, background): “Raymond (2004) demonstrates that, due to its ability to introduce upshots of prior talk, ‘‘so’’ can be deployed as a stand-alone to prompt the addressee to produce the next relevant action.”
Beginning to Respond: Well-Prefaced Responses to Wh-Questions (2009, background): “And, at the end, she triumphantly returns the turn to Hank, virtually defying him to make trouble now that she has detoxified the situation (with her “so” at line 8; see Raymond, 2004), and Tom joins her in a slight giggle.”