had nothing to fear with respect to her stated fear in the previous line of “being poor.”
This move is marked with “well” rather than “because” but despite the marker of
dispreference indexes a positive participation framework. The construction might be
rephrased as “it is valid to hate being poor, but *her home (the confiscated home) is
really warm” (“so it’s okay or good that we pretended that you hate being poor”). In
line 9, Gwen gives a reason that provides support for why Barb’s proposal, stated in
the previous turn, is a good idea—it’s a good idea to pretend that the house that Gwen
is getting is really warm because Gwen is a summer dinosaur. “Because” is repeat-
edly used either to justify the partner or to justify an agreement with the partner.
These constructions are not comprehensible without interpreting them across several
turns of talk.
In the last line, line 12, Barb seems to use “because” to introduce a justification of
a pretend proposal that does not seem very supportive of Gwen. Gwen had stated that
she is a summer dinosaur and likes to go out when it’s warm. In line 12, Barb is suggest-
ing that the night is cold, which seems to be a state of affairs that would harm Gwen.
However, pretending that the night is cold might be a good idea from the perspective of
the joint script being created. If the night is cold, it creates a state of affairs that renders
the act made earlier in the example of the Prince (Barb) giving over the house confis-
cated from Raggedy Ann to Gwen’s character, the Princess, even more meaningful or
supportive. By supporting the idea of the coldness of the night, Barb is supporting the
goodness of fit of the Prince’s gesture, referenced earlier in the discourse (lines 3 and
5), to a current state of affairs (that it’s cold). Barb’s justification is supporting and vali-
dating the idea that had collaboratively emerged in the script. The “because” marks the
fact that this justification is supportive of and validates the joint script: It refers back to
the earlier move made by Barb (lines 3 and 5) and supports it.
Example 3 shows use of “because” as a discourse marker to build ideational
units across utterances
within the speaker’s own turn
. Though this use reinforces the
speaker’s own proposal, it also affirms the joint script in showing, through a series of
proposals, how bad the protagonist Raggedy Ann was to the Princess. By using “be-
cause,” Gwen shows that she is affirming their joint problem—the treachery of
Raggedy Ann. By doing so, Gwen also is affirming the joint script that the children
are building together, which has as its main idea the happiness of the Prince and Prin-
cess and the threat to their happiness posed by Raggedy Ann.
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