Yu2024
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Yu2024 |
| Author(s) | Guodong Yu, Lijun Xin |
| Title | Acknowledging and legitimizing the embarrassment: Responding to embarrassment-telling |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, accidental norm violation, acknowledging embarrassness, embarrassment-telling, legitimizing being embarrassed, Mandarine Chinese |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 26 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 848-871 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614456241241186 |
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Abstract
Sharing embarrassing experiences is an ordinary and recurrent social phenomenon, and this article carries out a conversation analytic study on how embarrassment-telling is interactionally co-constructed in talk-in-interaction. It is found that embarrassment-telling is delivered as an incident that should not have happened happens by accident to the teller due to the embarrassment-teller’s unintended violation of a normative practice. In response, the co-interactant acknowledges the experience’s being embarrassing, while legitimizes the teller’s being embarrassed, thus making the response to embarrassment-telling a nuanced issue by maneuvering between affiliation and disaffiliation with the teller. Data are in Mandarin Chinese with English translation.
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