(6.16 SC)
Now
. Now look at him he’s nice and nestled there and everything.
[Laughs]. We had spawn of the seventies there a minute ago. Now we have
spawn of the eighties. I mean like.
He is spawn of the eighties.
The mother has just put a decoration on the tree, and her stand alone use of
now
(in
bold) carries the characteristics of a deictic presentative in that it could reasonably be
interpreted as a metacomment on the action just completed, and may well have been
accompanied by a gesture. This use of
now
is also evident in TravCorp. In extract (6.17)
below, the father uses
now
in order to indicate that he has achieved his aim of ‘settling’
the children:
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