Trajectories of request for reconfirmation sequences in Yurakaré: Do repeats reduce information rate in conversation?

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.006

Sonja Gipper

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Abstract

This paper investigates the role of repeat format in contextualizing degrees of informativity in Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) request for reconfirmation sequences. Requests for reconfirmation constitute a subtype of newsmarks, inviting at least a reconfirming response by the interlocutor. Across languages, there are two main competing formats for formulating requests for reconfirmation and other responsive actions in conversation: repeats and conventionalized formats such as response particles. Given that repeats restate (part of) a proposition while at the same time being informationally redundant, they have the capacity of explicitly spreading information across various turns. With these properties, repeats may potentially be employed in conversation to reduce peaks in information rate. This hypothesis is explored in this paper for Yurakaré request for reconfirmation sequences. The results, however, suggest that repeat format in the request for reconfirmation and the reconfirming response does not participate in the contextualization of degrees of informativity in Yurakaré request for reconfirmation sequences.

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yurakar中请求再确认序列的轨迹：重复是否会降低会话中的信息率？

本文研究了重复格式在yurakar（孤立的，玻利维亚）请求再确认序列的信息性语境化程度中的作用。重新确认请求构成新闻标记的一个子类型，邀请对话者至少进行一次重新确认响应。在不同的语言中，有两种主要的相互竞争的格式，用于制定会话中的重新确认请求和其他响应动作：重复和响应粒子等常规格式。鉴于重复重述（部分）一个命题，同时又具有信息冗余性，它们具有在不同回合中明确传播信息的能力。有了这些特性，可以在会话中使用重复来降低信息速率的峰值。本文对再确认序列的yurakar请求进行了假设。然而，研究结果表明，再确认请求和再确认响应中的重复格式不参与yurakar再确认请求序列中信息性程度的语境化。

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Journal of Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.90

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18.80%

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219

期刊介绍： Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.