回应位置中的重复そう与知识优先的运作

王亚峰; 于国栋

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024030108

回应位置中的重复そう与知识优先的运作

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2024030108

王亚峰¹,
于国栋²

1.
山西大学外国语学院，太原 030006
2.
中国海洋大学外国语学院，青岛 266100

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作者简介:
王亚峰（1983—），男，山西临汾人，山西大学外国语学院副教授

于国栋（1971—），男，山西大同人，中国海洋大学外语学院教授，博士生导师

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- 收稿日期: 2024-03-30
- 网络出版日期: 2026-05-15
- 刊出日期: 2026-08-25

Multiple Soo as Response and Management of Epistemic Primacy

Wang Yafeng¹,
Yu Guodong²

1.
School of Foreign Languages, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
2.
College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

摘要

摘要: 文章从会话分析视角出发，考察日语中重复形式的应答词そう在回应是非问时的互动功能。是非问通过提出命题，展示提问者对相关情况的最佳猜测，在提供一个优先的可能答案的同时，体现提问者在该命题上较强的知识表达。作为回应方，回答者可能对此进行观照和处理，其中重复そう就是日语互动中可被调用的资源。既有研究多将そう作为确认形式加以讨论，但较少严格区分单个そう和重复そう在回应是非问时的互动功能及其差异。基于自然会话语料的分析表明：单个そう在确认提问命题的同时，往往宣示回答者的知识优先，并可能在一定程度上暗含对提问行为合理性的质疑；而重复そう则通过弱化确认的力度，缓和回答者知识优先的同时，观照提问者在问题设计中所展示的知识立场，进而在互动的微观层面实现对交际者之间社会关系的管理与维护。
- 是非问 /
- 重复そう /
- 确认 /
- 知识 /
- 社会关系
Abstract: Drawing on a conversation-analytic perspective, this study explores the interactional functions of the repeated response token Soo in Japanese when used to respond to polar questions. By formulating a proposition, polar questions display the questioner’s best guess about the matter at hand and offer a preferred candidate answer, thereby indexing a relatively strong epistemic stance on the part of the questioner. In responding to such questions, recipients may orient to and manage this epistemic display, and multiple Soo constitutes a recurrent resource for doing so. While previous studies have primarily discussed Soo as a confirmation device, little attention has been paid to the interactional differences between single Soo and multiple Soo in response to polar questions. Analysis of naturally occurring conversational data shows that a single Soo, while confirming the question’s proposition, asserts the respondent’s epistemic primacy and may implicitly call into question the warrant for asking. By contrast, multiple Soo mitigates the force of confirmation and softens the respondent’s epistemic primacy, while simultaneously orienting to the epistemic stance displayed in the question design. Through this practice, participants manage epistemic relations and maintain social relationships at the micro-interactional level.
- yes/no interrogative /
- multiple Soo /
- confirmation /
- epistemics /
- social relationship
注释:

1) 1Sacks最初的观察是问题应该被设计为“可同意的（agreeable）”，Robinson进一步对这种可同意性（agreeability）进行了论证，认为其主要体现在问题的设计与相关事态的可能性以及交际者对该事态的可能看法之间的契合。

2) 2包括はい、ええ、うん等应答词。

3) 3包括单个或重复そう，以及其后可接续的判定词だ、语气助词よね、ね、よ等形式。

4) 4该类用法不属于本文的研究范围。

5) 5括号内数字为TALK BANK语料库中的序号。

6) 6括号内文字仅为译文层面的补充性说明，在日语原语料中并未出现。

7) 7“ドカ雪”是指短时间内下大量的雪，这里译为“阵雪”。

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图 1 そう的重复次数与是非问命题中展示的知识能力的对应关系（示意）

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