A miks sa torusse ei räägi? Miks-küsilausetega tehtavad suhtlustegevused argitelefonivestlustes

Abstract

Artiklis kasitletakse eesti telefonivestlustes esinevaid kusisonaga miks moodustatud kusilauseid ja nendega tehtavaid suhtlustegevusi. Kui uldiselt maaratletakse miks -kusilauseid kui pohjuse jarele kusivaid erikusimusi, siis selle uurimuse materjali analuus naitab, et miks -kusilaused on funktsionaalselt vaga mitmekihilised ja nendega tehakse igapaevases suhtluses erinevaid suhtlustegevusi, millest kusimused moodustavad ainult marginaalse osa. Uurimuse tulemused naitavad, et miks -kusilauseid kasutatakse jargmiste suhtlustegevuste labiviimiseks: kusimus, etteheide, kask, nouanne, kaeblemine, vaidlustus. Miks -kusilausetele eelneb suhtluses teatud sotsiaalsest normist korvalekaldumine voi koneleja jaoks muu vastuolu, mis tuuakse esile just miks -kusilausega.  "Social actions conducted by why-interrogatives in Estonian everyday telephone conversations" This paper analyses interrogatives formed with the why pronoun in Estonian everyday telephone conversations. Why -interrogatives are regularly defined as questions asking for reasons for or accounts of actions. This paper, however, demonstrates that only a small fraction of why -interrogatives are actually used for questioning. The data come from the Corpus of Spoken Estonian of the University of Tartu. Altogether 41 why -interrogatives were analysed using the approach of interactional linguistics. The primary social actions conducted by why -interrogatives are the following: question, reproach, command, suggestion, complaint and challenge. The study reveals that why -interrogatives are multifunctional, used to carry out several social actions concurrently. The question form makes it possible for the recipients to interpret why -interrogatives as questions (by giving a neutral answer) or as some socially dispreferred actions, such as reproaches, challenges etc (by justifying themselves). Why -interrogatives demonstrate the speaker’s negative stance towards a preceding action.