Abstract
It is often assumed as self-evidential that speakers express their emotion, evaluation, or attitude by their speech to achieve their purposes. In this paper I shall show that this common view, apart from its seeming plausibility, does not always capture successfully the very nature of speaker's behavior in everyday communication, and suggest an alternative view for understanding the correlation between speaker's speech and their emotion, evaluation, and attitudes.
Close observation on everyday Japanese conversation data, especially focused on disfluent phenomena such as fillers, stuttering, and pressed voice (a kind of creaky voice), by using native speaker introspection reveals that the so-called common view has three defects. The idea that the speaker uses various fillers, various ways of stuttering, various voice qualities to express his/her emotion, evaluation, and attitudes cannot explain the detail of these disfluent phenomena because (i) it does not accept unintended speech because of its teleological nature, (ii) it does not really touch speaker's psychology because it is based on outward perspective, and (iii) it regards language as a thing to express something rather than an expressing action itself.
