@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029920, author = {伊藤, 亜紀 and ITO, Aki}, journal = {名古屋大学人文学フォーラム}, month = {Mar}, note = {This paper reports the interactional functions of utterance-final "~to omotte", focusing on responding using "~to omotte" to a question. The approach of Conversation Analysis is used to analyze the types of interactional problerns solved by these "~to omotte" utterances. Through the qualitative analysis, utterance-final "~to omotte" were found to have the following common points; (a) the utterances are used non-fluently and the recipients have difficulty in responding; (b) the recipients have not given the questioners clear information; (c) even under the case of (b), the recipients of utterance-final "~to omotte" accept it as an answer to their question. Considering these common points, this form serves the following two functions: (1) by verbalizing their present thought, the recipients account for not having clear answers to the questions; (2). in order to justify their actions, by reporting the past thoughts, the recipients retrospectively explain the reasons behind the previous actions. In two examples of conversational unit called the adjacency pair, when you greet someone, the recipient should greet you back, and when you summons someone, the recipient should answer back. These adjacency pairs are the basic units of sequence organization (Schegloff 2007). By using utterance-final "~to omotte", the recipients can react to situations where answering is relevant even if they do not have answers. Furthermore, in contexts where the recipients may be misunderstood if they do not answer a question, they justify themselves with the utterance-final "~to omotte". Among numerous utterances ending with the te-form, utterance-final "~to omotte" are especially used in different sequential contexts, such as in story-telling where people talk about their experiences and both in the question and response turns in a question-answer sequence, etc. As opposed to being viewed as a just conjunctional form, utterance-final "~to omotte" in interacion are an interactional form. For future research, I would like to analyze these utterances using different topics in Conversation Analysis and develop a general account of "~to omotte" in interaction.}, pages = {403--418}, title = {「~と思って」で終わる発話の相互行為上の機能 : 質問に応答する際の「~と思って」}, volume = {3}, year = {2020} }