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This study explores the Korean final suffix - (u)lkel  in the context of stance-taking within the framework of stance triangle and the notion of emergent stance. Using data from one hundred 30-minute telephone calls and 15 video recorded conversations totaling 270 min, this study examines the  non-committal  epistemic function of - (u)lkel  from a conversation analytic approach and demonstrates how speakers mobilize this suffix as a  divergent alignment  stance marker when confronted with a conflicting, yet unclear understanding of information associated with a stance object. Moreover, the high intonational boundary tone associated with  -(u)lkel  cedes the floor to the recipient where a negotiation of the conflicting information offers an opportunity for a readjustment of positions towards either a converging-diverging alignment or  disalignment  (i.e., speakers’ abandonment of a shared stance object). As such, this study shows that a grammatical suffix such as  -(u)lkel  is not simply deployed to mark propositional information but is also utilized as an interactional resource that enables dialogic speech activities such as co-construction of stance.

Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix - (u)lkel