@misc{oai:niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005327, author = {O'Neal, George C.}, month = {Mar}, note = {This dissertation contends that the discourse markers so and okay express procedural meanings in a corpus of oral American media, which is defined in this dissertation as any freely available American media with an oral component available on the internet such as TV programs, movies, and Podcasts, etc. Furthermore, this dissertation claims that both the discourse marker so and the discourse marker okay have previously unstudied procedural meanings. The discourse marker so adumbrates the speaker's intent to initiate the teleology of the interaction; that is, the deployment of the discourse marker so in interaction foreshadows the initiation of the main purpose of the interaction. The discourse marker okay, on the other hand, adumbrates the speaker's intent to initiate a dolichological event, such as an academic lecture, a story, or even a just long answer that necessitates a lengthy period of listenership from the interlocutor. This dissertation utilizes conversation analytic methodology as a base from which to determine the procedural meanings of the discourse marker so and the discourse marker okay. Conversation analysis claims that an emic retrospective orientation toward data that focuses on the interlocutor's reaction to previous phenomenon reveals the mechanisms of interactional praxis, and thus linguistic meanings and social pragmatics. That is, the meaning of any language phenomenon or any linguistic praxis is determined not by the speaker's intentions, but rather through an analysis of the interlocutor's reaction. Accordingly, interlocutor's reactions that would provide evidence for the previously stated procedural meanings of both the discourse marker so v and the discourse marker okay would include the following: in the case of the discourse marker so, the interlocutor must orient to an utterance prefaced with the discourse marker so like the utterance represented the initiation of the teleological orientation of the interaction, or in other words, the main purpose of the interaction; in the case of the discourse marker okay, the interlocutor must orient to an utterance prefaced with the discourse marker okay like the utterance represented the initiation of a relatively long spate of talk, a dolichological event, that compelled a relatively long span of silence and listenership. An examination of the corpus of oral American media gathered for this dissertation reveals each hypothesis to be true: the discourse marker so is oriented to as a teleology marker and the discourse marker okay is oriented to as an extended turn marker in the corpus data., 学位の種類: 博士(学術). 報告番号: 甲第3758号. 学位記番号: 新大院博(学)甲第69号. 学位授与年月日: 平成25年3月25日, 新大院博(学)甲第69号}, title = {Teleological & Dolichological Discourse Marking in Oral American Media : The Discourse Markers So & Okay}, year = {2013} }