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Second summonings in Korean telephone conversation openings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2006

SEUNG-HEE LEE
SEUNG-HEE LEE
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, shlee@humnet.ucla.edu
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Abstract

This article is triggered by an analytic puzzle. In about half of a corpus of Korean telephone openings, callers produce a second summons, yeposeyyo, in the second turn of the opening sequence. The analysis unravels the interactional and organizational contingencies involved in the construction of the caller's second summons. It shows that the second summons operates as a vehicle for inviting recognition, and that the answerers overlay their work of recognition onto their talk in the third turn. In this way, the parties confront, work through, and display their underlying orientation to the organizational problem of establishing each other's identity in dealing with the second summons/answer sequence.An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 2004. I would like to thank John Heritage, Manny Schegloff, and Sung-Ock Sohn for valuable comments on earlier drafts. Barbara Johnstone and two anonymous readers for this journal also gave helpful advice.

Keywords

conversation analysisKoreansummonstelephone conversationopenings
Type
Research Article
Information
Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 261 - 283
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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