NAEREV HÄÄL AMETLIKUS JA ARGIVESTLUSES
SMILE VOICE IN INSTITUTIONAL AND EVERYDAY INTERACTION
Author(s): Andra AnnukaSubject(s): Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühing (ERÜ)
Keywords: spoken language; conversation analysis; laughter; humor; problem solving; Estonian;
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on smile voice in institutional and everyday interaction. Previous studies have described smile voice as a pseudo-laugh (Lavin, Maynard 2001: 466). Haakana (2010) has described it as a pre-laughing device or a response to laughter in previous turn. I have collected conversations from the University of Tartu Corpus of Spoken Estonian. I analyzed 232 pieces from everyday conversation, which included 342 turns that were said with smile voice, and 140 pieces from institutional talk, which included 169 turns that were said with smile voice. Smile voice appears both in humorous and problematic situations. In humorous situations there are three specific situations: jokes, story-tellings and absurd, in problematic situations there are four specific situations: self-corrections, awkwardness, apologizing and socially not-preferred situations.
Journal: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu aastaraamat
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 5-21
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Estonian