Open AccessThe ethnomethodology of metapragmatics in everyday interaction
Author(s) -
Chaim Noy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
language under discussion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2329-583X
DOI - 10.31885/lud.6.1.256
Subject(s) - indexicality , ethnomethodology , suffix , affordance , linguistics , focus (optics) , meaning (existential) , sociology , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , social science , cognitive psychology , physics , optics
This discussion note is inspired by, and in turn expands on, a few themes and threads laid out in Judith Bridges’s “Explaining ‘-splain’ in digital discourse”. The note stresses the focus and contribution linguistic anthropologists have made to understanding various types of indexical meaning-making practices, and the order of indexicality. This discussion note also briefly details the affordances of the word “explain” and the suffix “x-plain”, which may account for why this suffix, and not others, has come to be used so frequently.