UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE CONVERSATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Transcriptionand Glossing Conventions -- Romanization Conventions -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION : UTTERANCE PARTICLES IN CANTONESE -- 1. Grammatical Descriptions of Particles -- 2. Four Features of Utterance Particles -- 2.1 Semantic content -- 2.2 Grammatical mood -- 2.3 Attitudes and emotions -- 2.4 Sentence-final -- 3. The Linguistic Interests of Utterance Particles -- 3.1 The pervasiveness of particles in conversation -- 3.2 Utterance particles in conversational interaction : an example -- CHAPTER 2. CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS -- 1. Everyday Conversation -- 1.1 Naturally Occurring Data vs. Constructed Data -- 1.2 'Raw' Data vs. Elicited Data -- 1.3 Everyday Conversation -- 1.4 The Observer's Paradox -- 1.5 The Database of the Present Study -- 2. Ethnomethodology -- 2.1 The Reflexive Character of the Accountability of Social Actions -- 2.2 The Indexical Nature of Natural Language Descriptions -- 2.3 The Documentary Method of Interpretation -- 3. Conversation Analysis -- 3.1 The Production of Orderliness in Conversation -- 3.2 The Mutual Explication of Utterance and Context -- 3.3 The Empirical Investigation of Observable Details -- 3.4 Evidence -- 4. The Present Project -- CHAPTER 3. The Establishment of Common Ground in Conversation: the Utterance Particle LA -- 1. Previous Descriptions of LA -- 2. Reportings and Story-tellings -- 3. Listings and Instructions -- 4. Understanding Checks -- 5. Adequate Descriptions -- 6. Suggestions -- 7. Agreements -- 8. Pre-closings -- 9. LA as a resource for establishing common understanding -- 10. Summary -- CHAPTER 4. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ENDINGS IN CONVERSATION: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE LO -- 1. Question-Answer Sequences -- 2. Reportings.

3. Cognate Formulations -- 4. Confirmations -- 5. Suggestions -- 6. Advice-givings -- 7. Two Properties of LO -- 7.1 LO as a Marker of a Dependency Relation -- 7.2 LO as a Completion Proposal and a Topic Closure Device -- 8. The Management of Continuation and Extension : LA and LO -- 9. LO and the Production of Realities -- 9.1 The Uses of LO -- 9.3 Unnoteworthiness and Obviousness -- 9.4 The 'explanation ' reading -- 9.5 Uncommunicativeness and Irresponsibility -- CHAPTER 5. EXPECTATION AND NOTEWORTHINESS: THE UTTERANCE PARTICLE WO -- 1. Reportings and Story-tellings -- 2. Challenging a Position -- 3. Contact-establishments -- 4. Disconfirmations -- 5. Thankings -- 6. Informings and Remindings -- 7. Realizations -- 8. Intuitions on WO -- 9. Expectation and Interpretation -- CHAPTER 6. UTTERANCE PARTICLES AS CONVERSATIONAL OBJECTS -- 1. The Meanings of Utterance Particles as a Product of the Interaction between their Presumed Underlying Properties and Sequential Contexts -- 2. Utterance Particles as Grammatical Markers of Sentence-types -- 3. Utterance Particles as Carriers of Attitudinal and Emotive Meanings -- 4. Utterance Particles as IIIocutionary Force Indicating Devices -- 5. Utterance Particles as Discourse Markers -- 5.1 You know -- 5.2 well -- 5.3 OK -- 5.4 oh -- 5.5 The Systematic Contribution of Particles to Discourse Organization -- 6. Utterance Particles as Conversational Objects -- 6.1 Recipient Design -- 6.2 Sequential Organization -- 6.3 Preference Organization -- 6.4 Topic Organization -- 6.5 Conversational Charting -- 6.6 The Pervasiveness of Utterance Particles in Natural Conversation -- CHAPTER 7. TOWARDS A SOCIALLY CONSTITUTED LINGUISTICS -- 1. The Relevance of Conversation Analysis to Linguistics -- 1.1 Inter-disciplinary Considerations -- 1.2 Methodological Reappraisal -- 2. Towards a Socially Constituted Linguistics.

2.1 Traditional Sociolinguistics as a Social Adjunct to Linguistic Theory -- 2.2 A Socially Constituted Linguistics -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX.