Abstract
Several studies have shown that turn-initial particles, when placed in the first position of the second turn of a question-answer adjacency pair, signal an issue with the question (Schegloff and Lerner, 2009; Stivers, 2011;). Challenging what is asked relates to a mismatch between the presumed common ground knowledge between interlocutors (Krifka, 2008; Heritage 2012), as the person answering considers that the one asking has enough epistemic access to the information requested (Heritage and Raymond, 2021). Despite the literature on Catalan discursive particles (Cuenca, 2008; Robles and Pi Bertomeu 2017; Obis, 2017), uei was only briefly studied decades ago from a phraseological perspective (Sancho Cremades, 1998), and no insight into its interactional functioning was provided. The analyses here show that uei prefaces dispreferred answers (Heritage, 2013; Arita, 2021) when there is a disparity between the presumed shared knowledge. This discrepancy may stem from knowledge built through prior interactions or from that same context. I also show how uei co-exists with other mechanisms that signal a dispreferred answer.
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