Ke2022
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Ke2022 |
| Author(s) | Xianbing Ke |
| Title | ‘I (don’t) want X/Y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in Chinese Mediation Resources |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Discursive Psychology, court-related mediation, formulating strategies, mediation intentions, mediation mechanism, wants, formulations, Chinese |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 24 |
| Number | 5 |
| Pages | 590-611 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456221108595 |
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Abstract
The recurrent court-related mediation discourse studies have focused on mediation participants’ willingness. Drawing on a corpus of five situated recorded court-related civil mediation data in China, this article takes one of the frequently-used mediation resources ‘I don’t want X/Y’ (here X, Y stands for a certain mediation willingness/intention) as a case study of formulating mediation ‘wants’. It is intended to explore mediation participants’ exploitation of the court-related mediation resources to express their mediation willingness/ intentions: how the mediator manipulates either side of the participants’ mediation discursive concepts; how the mediator shift the trajectory of narrating the participants’ mediation dispute-facts to judging on the dispute-facts; and how the mediator deviates himself from the third-party neutral mediators’ mediating role. The value of analyzing this formulation ‘I don’t want X/Y’ is to reveal the fact that such mediation practices in their recurrent environments might go against the court-related mediation principles such as being self-willingness, neutrality and uprightness. This article contributes to formulate mediation ‘wants’ strategically and promote the court-related mediation practices in the service of sequentially unfolding mediation interaction effectively.
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