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Versteeg2025

2025-10-17T15:05:04Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Versteeg2025
|Key=Versteeg2025
|Title=All but naive: Patrolling epistemic territories in radio phone-ins
|Author(s)=Wytske Versteeg; Hedwig te Molder; Lotte van Burgsteden;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; certified expertise; contested expertise; personal experience; radio phone-ins; Dutch
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=826–845
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241297374
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241297374
|Abstract=In this paper, we analysed Dutch and British radio phone-in conversations on ADHD and vaccination between radio hosts and callers, focusing on how interactants dispute the authority of both scientific and experiential claims to expertise. We found that interactants never challenged the authority of science and experience as such, but resisted their normative relevance. When callers offered expertise in the form of personal experience, hosts challenged its relevance for the overhearing audience by treating the experience as mere belief. When callers offered expertise in the form of scientific knowledge, hosts carefully patrolled the boundaries of ‘real’ science and who may speak for it. We discuss how our findings can explain the frequent contestation of factual sources in semi-public exchanges and offer a new perspective on the supposed diminished authority of scientific knowledge.
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Inbar2025

2025-10-17T15:03:57Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Inbar2025
|Key=Inbar2025
|Title=Teasing via the [lo, ki ‘no, because’ + ironic utterance] structure in Hebrew talk-in-interaction
|Author(s)=Anna Inbar; Yael Maschler;
|Tag(s)=Teasing; mockery; criticism; causality; adverbial clauses; irony; shared knowledge; Hebrew Interactional Linguistics; Multimodal Interaction Analysis
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=759–786
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241281723
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241281723
|Abstract=The current study elaborates on one mechanism through which teasing is accomplished in Hebrew interaction. Investigating naturally occurring casual conversation from the Haifa Multimodal Corpus of Spoken Hebrew, and employing the methodologies of Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Interaction Analysis, we explore a recurrent and recognizable practice used by Hebrew speakers – the deployment of lo ‘no’ followed by a ki ‘because’-prefaced ironic utterance. We suggest that the [lo, ki + ironic utterance] structure is a fixed format that encapsulates a practice of providing a teasing comment as a responsive action. We propose that via the use of this structure, speakers convey a negative stance of inappropriacy toward the previous action by appealing to knowledge that the recipient is obliged to know, while simultaneously mocking the recipient responsible for the inappropriacy and indirectly reproaching them for disregarding this knowledge, whether by failing to take it into account, or by a deliberate choice to ignore it.
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Davidson2025

2025-10-17T15:02:54Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Davidson2025
|Key=Davidson2025
|Title=Teachers’ use of reported habitual thoughts in research interviews
|Author(s)=Christina Davidson; Christine Edwards-Groves;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; habitual thoughts; interaction; interviews; reported thought
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=739–758
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241309177
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241309177
|Abstract=Use of reported thoughts in research interviews has rarely been examined although research interviews are a major source of data in qualitative research. This paper considers a conversation analytic examination of reported habitual thoughts, produced by twelve teachers during research interviews addressing their participation in a three-year action research study. Data are drawn from a collection of 137 reported thoughts and analysis establishes ways that habitual thoughts were used during interviews to report thought produced repetitively over time, rather than a thought produced on just one occasion. Habitual thoughts exhibited features identified with reported thoughts in other interactional environments but appeared particularly responsive to the local context produced through interviewer-interviewee interaction about the longitudinal research study that had required teachers to reflect on their established classroom practices and make changes to them.
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Caronia2025

2025-10-17T15:01:40Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Caronia2025
|Key=Caronia2025
|Title=Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers
|Author(s)=Letizia Caronia; Federica Ranzani; Vittoria Colla; Silvia Demozzi; Giulia Benericetti;
|Tag(s)=Discourse Analysis; children’s caregivers; community-oriented care; epistemic and deontic authority; helping professions; family-centered care; medical talk-in-interaction; pediatric visits; reported speech; Italian
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Month=oct
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=5
|Pages=718–738
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231184087
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231184087
|Abstract=Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where parents ‘ventriloquize’ the teachers’ voices and pursue an alliance with the pediatrician against the school’s practices or stance. We illustrate the local ratification of the pediatrician’s deontic authority over the teacher’s and the interactional accomplishment of (dis)alliances among the institutionally sanctioned caregivers. In the conclusion, we argue that this local system of deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances indexes the contemporary shift toward an individualized (or individualistic?) model of care and education, deaf to the collective demands and the need for relatively routinized practices that are at stake in any community.
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Alfahad2025

2025-09-05T07:04:33Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-09-05 01:04:32

{{BibEntry
|Key=Alfahad2025
|Key=Alfahad2025
|Title=Challenging questions in Saudi press conferences
|Author(s)=Abdulrahman Alfahad;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; aggressiveness; Arabic media; media interaction; press conferences; questions; Arabic
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=4
|Pages=513-528
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241287367
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241287367
|Abstract=Press conferences that host high ranking officials have not been a common practice in Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, since 2020 this has changed clearly as Ministers have begun to appear in regular press conferences, a new format that requires examination and comparison to see the extent to which it is in line with the previous findings of this kind of interaction in western contexts. The current paper concentrates on examining the practice of challenging officials. The questions from these press conferences have been categorized using a framework that assesses aggressiveness through four aspects: initiative, directness, assertiveness, and hostility. The results show that journalists score a high level in the first dimension, but achieve generally low scores in the other three dimensions. The overall results indicate that journalists display a degree of initiative-taking and bring some concerns of the public to officials, but with a high proportion of cautious and non-assertive questions, an interaction system that avoids a high level of confrontation toward officials.
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Hutchby2025

2025-06-29T15:26:06Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-06-29 09:26:06

{{BibEntry
|Key=Hutchby2025
|Key=Hutchby2025
|Title=Prospective expertise: The use of ‘listen’ in the discourse of television sports pundits
|Author(s)=Ian Hutchby;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; action-prefacing; broadcast talk; discourse markers; expertise; sports commentary
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=399-414
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241276761
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241276761
|Abstract=This article details the functions of the imperative verb ‘listen’ in the pre-match build-up discussions of television football pundits. Data were recorded from live coverage of recent national and international football competitions. The analysis shows how ‘listen’ plays a role in what is referred to as prospective expertise: the work accomplished during the extensive pre-game build-up sections of a show, in which pundits engage in highlighting potential points of drama or sporting adversity to be anticipated in the game that is yet to be played. Three patterns are identified, in which different sequential positionings of ‘listen’ yield differing kinds of statements or evaluations, assessments, predictions and caveats regarding the forthcoming game.
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Liu2025

2025-06-29T15:24:27Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-06-29 09:24:27

{{BibEntry
|Key=Liu2025
|Key=Liu2025
|Title=An interactional linguistics study of Shi ba in Mandarin conversation
|Author(s)=Feng Liu;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; epistemic status; interactional functions; position in turns and sequences; prosodic manifestations; shi ba; Mandarin Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=415-437
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241285897
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241285897
|Abstract=From the perspective of interactional linguistics and adopting the methodology of conversation analysis, this study explores some fine-grained interactional uses of shi ba in Mandarin conversation. It first classifies shi ba into unmarked and marked forms generally in terms of their prosodic manifestations with the assistance of Praat, the speech analysis tool. Then it demonstrates that the unmarked shi ba fulfills three interactional functions: requesting confirmation, seeking affiliation and maintaining floor; the marked shi ba registers dissatisfaction and displays affiliation. However, shi ba is basically a tag question, and serves to invite the recipient to proffer certain interactional response. The specific function that shi ba performs in conversation is tied to three decisive factors – its prosodic manifestations, position in specific turns and sequences as well as the relative epistemic status of interlocutors. The study also suggests that there lies a common motivation for the emergence of various interactional functions of shi ba, that is – the demand for an on-line alignment, which reflects the cross-fertilization between language and interaction.
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Yang2025

2025-06-29T15:15:30Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-06-29 09:15:30

{{BibEntry
|Key=Yang2025
|Key=Yang2025
|Title=Downgrading commitment: The final particle ba in complying responses to directives in Mandarin Chinese conversation
|Author(s)=Shuai Yang;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; commitment; complying responses; particle ba; Mandarin Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2025
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=27
|Number=3
|Pages=455-476
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241285903
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241285903
|Abstract=Mandarin Chinese is a particle-rich language. Using conversation analysis as its research method, the present study examines one of the Mandarin final particles, namely the particle ba, and illustrates its interactional imports in complying responses to three types of directive actions including requests, suggestions, and proposals. It is argued that the particle ba serves as a conversational resource that is employed at the end of compliance tokens like hao or xing (good or okay) to modify or, to put it more specifically, downgrade its speaker’s commitment. By indicating the reserved or downgraded commitment in an off-record way, participants show their orientation to preserving and maintaining social solidarity. This study contributes to the understanding of commitment in social interaction, especially in responsive actions. Together with other conversation analytic studies on the particle ba, this study also contributes to the understanding of the core meaning and function of the particle ba as a conversational object.
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Jian2025

2025-04-06T08:49:03Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Zhiying Jian;
|Title=How is joint laughter ‘pre’ to advice-giving: A sequential pattern that centralizes trouble in student supervision
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advice-giving; Joint laughter; Sequential environment; Supervision interaction; Troubles; Preliminaries; Education;
|Key=Jian2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=106–127
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241257581
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241257581
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study identifies a sequential pattern, where the construction of laughable is succeeded by joint laughter between students and supervisors, and is used to anticipate the exposure of trouble and advice-giving. Drawing from authentic supervision meetings in UK institutions, this study identifies key features that appeal joint laughter: (1) students’ disaligment with formal supervisory questions and (2) supervisors’ disruption of students’ consistency of talk to point out something problematic. Both warranting further unpacking, these two types of interactional trouble make the activity of advice-giving relevant. This study not only contributes to the properties of laughable, but also to the sequential environmental prerequisites for advice-giving in supervision interaction.
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Aronsson2025

2025-04-06T08:48:24Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Karin Aronsson; Camilla Rindstedt;
|Title=Draw-a-Monster: Scaffolding and nurse-child improvisations at a child health center
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Adult-child play; Alignments; Improvisations; Micro-politics; Participation framework; Performance; Scaffolding; Storytelling; Swedish
|Key=Aronsson2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=46–63
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241281725
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241281725
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This case study documents social interaction between a nurse and a 4-year-old boy during routine Draw-a-Man assessments at a child health center. Detailed analyses illuminate how the nurse scaffolded head, legs, arms, eyes, and mouth step by step, as elements of a jointly improvised monster story. Nurse-child interaction alternated between scaffoldings and joint improvisations during the child’s drawing of a man who would ‘guard’ a monster. The drawing was co-construed through storytelling and alignments. Divergent participation frameworks were invoked, when the child did not let go of his precious drawing, insisting on taking it home to dad, while the nurse invoked the center’s routines (archiving all drawings). This brief micro drama was resolved through whispered by-play between mother and child. The analyses show how a drawing task is co-construed through improvisations and storytelling, and it also illuminates the role of joint performance for building we-teams and adult-child alignments.
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Hunt2025

2025-04-06T08:47:37Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Alexander R Hunt; Mirko A Demasi;
|Title=‘Which would be more democratic? Allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit referendum
|Tag(s)=Discursive Psychology; Politics; Parlamentary debates; Arguments; Brexit; Democracy; Political communication; Political discourse
|Key=Hunt2025
|Year=2025
|Volume=36
|Number=1
|Pages=60–77
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265241257629
|DOI=10.1177/09579265241257629
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
|Abstract=Parliamentary debates are beneficial political environments to study using discourse analysis and discursive psychology. However, there is limited discursive psychological research analysing arguments for and against the possibility of a second referendum concerning the UK’s EU membership status. We collected our data by transcribing a parliamentary debate where politicians discussed a second referendum and analysed it using a discursive psychological framework. Whether they supported leave or remain, politicians discredit their opposing position for supposedly lacking democratic values. As such, politicians portrayed their stances on Brexit as a requirement to uphold democratic principles. The main implication of the analysis demonstrated that politicians defined democracy depending on the positions they took regarding calls for a second Brexit referendum. The present study contributes to the growing discursive literature on Brexit discourse by showing how the meaning of democracy is contested and used as a tool to manage accountability.
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Jian2025

2025-03-16T10:33:32Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-03-16 04:33:32

{{BibEntry
|Key=Jian2025
|Key=Jian2025
|Title=How is joint laughter ‘pre’ to advice-giving: A sequential pattern that centralizes trouble in student supervision
|Author(s)=Zhiying Jian;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Advice-giving; Joint laughter; Sequential environment; Supervision interaction; Troubles; Preliminaries; Education;
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=106–127
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241257581
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241257581
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This conversation analytic study identifies a sequential pattern, where the construction of laughable is succeeded by joint laughter between students and supervisors, and is used to anticipate the exposure of trouble and advice-giving. Drawing from authentic supervision meetings in UK institutions, this study identifies key features that appeal joint laughter: (1) students’ disaligment with formal supervisory questions and (2) supervisors’ disruption of students’ consistency of talk to point out something problematic. Both warranting further unpacking, these two types of interactional trouble make the activity of advice-giving relevant. This study not only contributes to the properties of laughable, but also to the sequential environmental prerequisites for advice-giving in supervision interaction.
}}

Aronsson2025

2025-03-16T10:27:06Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2025-03-16 04:27:06

{{BibEntry
|Key=Aronsson2025
|Key=Aronsson2025
|Title=Draw-a-Monster: Scaffolding and nurse-child improvisations at a child health center
|Author(s)=Karin Aronsson; Camilla Rindstedt;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Adult-child play; Alignments; Improvisations; Micro-politics; Participation framework; Performance; Scaffolding; Storytelling; Swedish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Volume=27
|Number=1
|Pages=46–63
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241281725
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241281725
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This case study documents social interaction between a nurse and a 4-year-old boy during routine Draw-a-Man assessments at a child health center. Detailed analyses illuminate how the nurse scaffolded head, legs, arms, eyes, and mouth step by step, as elements of a jointly improvised monster story. Nurse-child interaction alternated between scaffoldings and joint improvisations during the child’s drawing of a man who would ‘guard’ a monster. The drawing was co-construed through storytelling and alignments. Divergent participation frameworks were invoked, when the child did not let go of his precious drawing, insisting on taking it home to dad, while the nurse invoked the center’s routines (archiving all drawings). This brief micro drama was resolved through whispered by-play between mother and child. The analyses show how a drawing task is co-construed through improvisations and storytelling, and it also illuminates the role of joint performance for building we-teams and adult-child alignments.
}}

Yu2024

2024-11-20T20:02:14Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-11-20 01:02:14

{{BibEntry
|Key=Yu2024
|Key=Yu2024
|Title=Acknowledging and legitimizing the embarrassment: Responding to embarrassment-telling
|Author(s)=Guodong Yu; Lijun Xin;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; accidental norm violation; acknowledging embarrassness; embarrassment-telling; legitimizing being embarrassed; Mandarine Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=6
|Pages=848-871
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241241186
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241241186
|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.
}}

Stein2024

2024-11-20T19:45:17Z

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{{BibEntry
|Key=Stein2024
|Key=Stein2024
|Title=Disclaiming knowledge to encourage participation in research group meetings
|Author(s)=Fabíola Stein; Helen Melander Bowden;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; epistemic disclaimers; expertise; peer collaboration; research group meetings; scientific knowledge; workplace learning
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=6
|Pages=799-821
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241252598
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241252598
|Abstract=This study investigates instances where experienced researchers make explicit claims of lack of knowledge (e.g., ‘I have to reveal my ignorance completely’) in the context of paper discussions during research group meetings. Drawing on multimodal interaction analysis, the analysis focuses on epistemic disclaimers in their sequential contexts, and the local management of institutional identities and domains of knowledge. The analyzed data draw from video-ethnographic work involving participant observation and video recordings at a research program in Physical Chemistry at a Swedish university. Focusing on epistemic disclaimers occurring in first pair-parts, the analysis explores how senior researchers employ disclaimers to mark the eliciting function of their questions, as they work to encourage participation by opening the floor while positioning co-participants as (more) knowledgeable. The results evidence how the accomplishment of peer collaboration and knowledge distribution in scientific work involves the management of rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge and scientific expertise.
}}

Svensson2024

2024-11-20T19:38:36Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Hanna Svensson;
|Title=Requesting another to taste: Passing food and the distribution of agency in the organization of bodily trajectories
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Agency; Conversation analysis; Ethnomethodology; Embodiment; Projectability; Requests; Tasting
|Key=Svensson2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=6
|Pages=822-847
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456241242945
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241242945
|Abstract=This paper offers an analysis of the organizational features of passing food objects as a commonplace embodied social practice to accomplish requests to another to taste food during joint cooking activities. Situated within the cognate frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology, the sequential, multimodal analysis details and explains the formal features of passing food from hand to hand and from hand to mouth as distinct practices with distinct micro-sequential organizations. The study draws on a corpus of 14 hours of video-recordings of naturally occurring joint cooking activities in which the participants speak German, Swedish, and English. Focusing on the projectable aspects of bodily trajectories, the analysis reveals how the request sequences are achieved through the participants’ early projection of how to pass the food objects and their stepwise mutual adjustments to their conjoint action trajectory. In progressively establishing who does what next and how during the food transfer, the participants orient to the relevance and distribution of interactional agency. When the normative organization of the step-by-step transfer is disregarded, an ambiguity emerges concerning what action the practice is doing, which prompts the participants to engage in significant interactional work to re-negotiate on what terms the transfer can resume. This shows how issues of interactional agency are exerted and exhibited in and through the sequential organization of social interaction. The results contribute to, and elaborate, prior findings on requests and advances our understanding for the close attention that participants to interaction pay to the detailed aspects of multimodally formatted actions and the normative expectancies that make up to their intelligibility, reflexively elaborating each other.
}}

Montiegel2024

2024-11-20T19:34:14Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Kristella Montiegel;
|Title=Invoking time limits for managing responses in US Senate Judiciary Committee lower court nomination hearings
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Institutional talk; Partisanship; Questions and answers; Senate Judiciary Committee; Time limits
|Key=Montiegel2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=6
|Pages=778-798
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/U9GZGJPGA5U9S8CQIJWD/full
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241252597
|Abstract=This study uses Conversation Analysis to investigate an interactional practice in US Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) lower court nomination hearings. Drawing from 13 hr and 36 min of data from Q&A rounds across 12 SJC hearings during 2020 and 2022, I document how senators’ invocations of the hearing’s time limits function as a resource for managing judicial nominees’ responses to their questions. I examine senators’ time invocations (TIs) in two main sequential areas: (1) When designing questions, and (2) when pursuing or challenging nominees’ responses. As a feature of question design, TIs help senators ‘move things along’ during their brief questioning time, as well as pin nominees to respond in ways preferable to the question. As a feature of pursuits or challenges, TIs help senators manage nominees’ off-topic, evasive, or unsound responses, thus ascribing different levels of accountability onto both nominees (for their inadequate responses to senators’ initial questions) and senators themselves (for the sequential and affiliative consequences associated with doing pursuing/challenging). Seven extracts are presented from a collection of 82 cases. Findings reveal how time limits can be leveraged by senators to advance various goals in this highly constrained and institutionalized context, including exhibiting and implicitly legitimizing partisan bias.
}}

Licoppe2024

2024-11-10T08:13:45Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-11-10 01:13:45

{{BibEntry
|Key=Licoppe2024
|Key=Licoppe2024
|Title=‘I know what it is’. An interactional study of sex discovery in prenatal ultrasound examinations
|Author(s)=Christian Licoppe; Nicolas Rollet; Luca Greco;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; visualization; ultrasound examination; health; noticing; multimodality; gender; prenatal care; expert knowledge; lay knowledge;professional vision; French
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=5
|Pages=643-668
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241241206
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241241206
|Abstract=One of the most exciting moments in a prenatal ultrasound session is learning the sex of the baby.Following a conversation analysis perspective, we present a multimodal analysis of sequences of interaction between patient and practitioner at the time the foetus’ sex is the focus of attention. Based on video data collected from maternity wards and private practitioners, we report on two types of sequences, which illustrate the different ways of responding to the perceptually-occasioned formulation of the foetus’ sex: as a telling or as a noticing (in which case participants orient towards jointly seeing). While the possibility of both response is inherent to the sequential properties of noticing-based claims in general, we will discuss how the production of both types of sequences is sensitive and articulated to the distribution of epistemic authority as a practical achievement in this medical setting, along two dimensions: expert versus ordinary knowledge, and professional vision versus lay gaze.
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Hitzler2024

2024-08-15T10:30:53Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Sarah Hitzler;
|Title=Doing being ordinary nonetheless: Navigating social expectations in a peer support group
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Peer support; Obesity; Being ordinary; Ordinariness; Harvey Sacks
|Key=Hitzler2024
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=4
|Pages=510–527
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456241229874
|DOI=10.1177/14614456241229874
|Abstract=Peer support groups offer spaces where individuals with similar problems can gather to offer each other support and understanding. Successions of narratives have been described as very effective instruments in building shared understanding in such groups. This article adds to these findings by analyzing a single case in an obesity support group. It shows that successions of narratives can be used to question social assumptions of ordinariness which are exclusionary toward the group’s members. In their place, the group jointly develops and establishes an alternative and specifically inclusionary understanding of ordinariness. This redefinition offers members a sense of belonging with respect to those exact aspects which may be grounds for exclusionary experiences in other situations and equips them with alternative interpretations of such encounters. In the analysis, Sacks’ concept of ordinariness is drawn on to denote a dynamic, situated and relational accomplishment based on experience rather than norms.
}}

Hiramoto2024

2024-08-15T10:28:39Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-08-15 04:28:39

{{BibEntry
|Key=Hiramoto2024
|Key=Hiramoto2024
|Title=Framing offer-related actions as assistance at jewelry stores in Japan
|Author(s)=Takeshi Hiramoto;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; assistance, offers, offer-related actions, service encounters; sales encounters; benefactor; beneficiary; recruitment; Japanese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=4
|Pages=481-509
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231224082
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231224082
|Abstract=While most of the studies on assistance in talk-in-interaction from the conversation analytic perspective presuppose that the actor who receives assistance already has or is expected to have problems, issues, needs, or demands, assistance can be offered without the expression or existence of plausible expectations of problems, issues, needs, or demands. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, this study explores how service providers frame their offer-related actions as assistance without the customer’s expression of concrete needs or demands or their expected emergence by analyzing the sequences in which salespersons offered customers to try the jewelry. The results of the analysis show that salespersons were motivated to execute pull-based offer-related actions in which assistance is provided in response to the expression or anticipation of customer needs, as they could lead to successful sales outcomes. Salespersons employed various techniques to frame their offer-related actions as assistance.
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Goodman2024

2024-08-15T10:23:30Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-08-15 04:23:29

{{BibEntry
|Key=Goodman2024
|Key=Goodman2024
|Title=Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
|Author(s)=Simon Goodman; Abigail Locke;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; CMC; cyberpsychology; hate speech; online hate; rhetorical psychology; refugee policy
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=4
|Pages=465-480
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231225448
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231225448
|Abstract=Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK containing 586 comments, to address the question: How are arguably hateful arguments, or those challenging hateful arguments, supported and challenged in the context of an internet discussion about a controversial refugee policy? Analysis demonstrated that support for posts is shown to come in the form of additional points to bolster existing ones. Opposition to posts took the form of simple rejections and counterpoints, sometimes taking a three-part structure of (a) simple rejection, (b) counterpoint and (c) upgrade, but also included insults, ridiculing and name calling. Discursive and rhetorical analyses have been shown to have potential to understand online behaviour offering more detail than relying on anonymity to explain controversial and hateful speech.
}}

Virtanen2024

2024-06-19T19:55:42Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-06-19 01:55:42

{{BibEntry
|Key=Virtanen2024
|Key=Virtanen2024
|Title=Negotiating joint commitment in collaborative work project: Focus on text-based requests and news deliveries in atypical work
|Author(s)=Mikko T Virtanen; Riikka Nissi;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; applied arts; atypical work; collaboration; news deliveries; professional communication; requests; text-based interaction; Finnish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Month=jun
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=3
|Pages=402–424
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231224078
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231224078
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=The shift to service and gig economy and increasing polymediality have created communicative contexts where the workers have to construct varying social relations in different kinds of digital and text-based interaction environments. This article examines how transprofessional collaboration is managed in such contexts in the field of applied arts. Based on email and mobile messaging data, we study a project where an artist creates an installation artwork for the use of an organisation. By applying the methods of conversation analysis, we investigate text-based requests and news delivery sequences related to applying for external project funding. Our results show how the participants negotiate the aspects of knowledge, power and emotion within these sequences, and by doing so, maintain mutual professional relationships and display various levels of commitment to the continuation of the project. The article illuminates the facets of transprofessional collaboration in digital professional communication and in atypical work.
}}

Bregasi2024

2024-06-19T19:39:48Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-06-19 01:39:48

{{BibEntry
|Key=Bregasi2024
|Key=Bregasi2024
|Title=The disputed territories of information: The case of alleged war crimes during the Kosovo War
|Author(s)=Majlinda Bregasi; Thomas Christiansen;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; epistemic access; face work; morality of knowledge; territories of information
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Month=jun
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=3
|Pages=297–313
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231223731
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231223731
|Note=Publisher: SAGE Publications
|Abstract=This article analyses participants’ sense-making and demonstrates procedural consequentially and relevance, and makes the data on which observations are based available to readers. By looking at a TV interview, in Albanian, of Hashim Thaçi, the former PM of Kosovo, given to respond to allegations against him regarding involvement in war crimes, the focus will be not only on what it is said but also on the epistemic positions occupied by the participants, with a particular interest in knowledge as a norm-governed domain and in the practices of language usage. We will highlight strategies like repetition, repair, code selection and code switching that are used by participants as a means to claim and govern knowledge. Such knowledge can become the basis of contestation and one speaker may seek to impose their knowledge of some facts or events over another’s and thereby establish a territory of knowledge in a series of moves, not entirely unlike the way that physical territory may be defended or attacked; held or occupied.
}}

Park2024

2024-04-25T17:27:26Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-04-25 11:27:26

{{BibEntry
|Key=Park2024
|Key=Park2024
|Title=Empathy in clinical performance examinations: Medical students’ use of empathic statements in interaction with standardized patients
|Author(s)=Song Hee Park; Chan Woong Kim; Mi Kyung Kim; Seung-Hee Lee;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; clinical performance examination; empathy; institutional interaction; medical education; Korean
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=2
|Pages=262-280
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231219651
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231219651
|Abstract=This paper examines interactional functions of empathic statements in clinical performance examinations by using the method of conversation analysis. In video-recordings of 170 consultations between medical students and standardized patients (individuals trained to play the role of the patient), medical students produce empathic utterances in three sequential positions and accomplish different interactional jobs. First, medial students produce empathic statements before the initiation of history taking. They check whether patients have concerns in addition to those in problem presentation. Second, medical students construct empathic statements during history taking. They treat a particular symptom as problematic, in alignment with patients’ display of a problem. Finally, medical students produce empathic statements before the delivery of diagnosis. They portray the upcoming diagnosis as made in recognition of the troublesome nature of patients’ problems. This suggests that functions of empathic statements can vary according to the specific demands of interaction in different sequential contexts.
}}

Jian2024

2024-04-25T17:24:37Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-04-25 11:24:37

{{BibEntry
|Key=Jian2024
|Key=Jian2024
|Title=Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction
|Author(s)=Zhiying Jian;
|Tag(s)=EMCA: advice-giving; advice resistance; supervision interaction; trouble report
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=2
|Pages=218-241
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231219655
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231219655
|Abstract=Advice-giving is not only a crucial pedagogic activity in student supervision but also responsive conduct to students’ expressions of trouble in talk in-interaction. However, we know little about how advice-giving arrives in such sequences. This study uses conversation analysis to examine supervisory advice-giving in responding turns after students express their trouble. It is demonstrated that students’ reports of trouble make supervisors’ advice-giving normatively relevant. But there may be additional work before the arrival of advice: (1) rephrasing students’ formulations of trouble, (2) using follow-up exploratory questions, and (3) sharing parallel experiences. They are considered to be moves that achieve epistemic symmetries on the advisable issues so the chance of advice resistance is minimized. When delivering the advice proper, two practices are discovered: the construction of It is not X but Y is aimed to mitigate the critical element; the just-formulation reflects supervisors’ orientation to the workability of the trouble. Overall, this set of findings provides that the elimination of epistemic asymmetry is key in the enactment of advice acceptance. The study draws on 67 episodes of responsive advice-giving sequences, found in 12 hours of video recordings of authentic supervision meetings in a UK institution.
}}

Edman2024

2024-04-25T17:21:26Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-04-25 11:21:26

{{BibEntry
|Key=Edman2024
|Key=Edman2024
|Title=Doing mutual understanding in child and family therapy sessions: How three interlocutors calibrate new information
|Author(s)=Kristina Edman;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; calibrating new information; microanalysis of face-to-face dialog; multiparty dialogs; mutual understanding; sequence organization; triadic dialogs; intersubjectivity; psychotherapy
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=2
|Pages=199-217
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231207519
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231207519
|Abstract=This paper presents an analysis of how three interlocutors sequentially organize and accomplish mutual understanding in naturally occurring audiovisual recordings of therapy sessions. The analysis is in keeping with microanalysis of face-to-face dialog (MFD) and follows operational definitions of three-step micro-processes that interlocutors use when they calibrate new information; that is, how they agree that they have understood each other’s words and actions well enough for current practical purposes. Pointing to some of the complexities that characterize triadic interactions, the analysis contributes with new documentations of ‘suspended’, ‘nested’, ‘branched’, ‘multi-paced’, and ‘mixed interpretations’ calibrations. The analysis also demonstrates how interlocutors may calibrate the ‘tone’ of an utterance before the topical content is mutually understood. The results and their implications may be relevant to practitioners of institutional talks at large, where the quality and outcome of, for instance, assessments and interventions largely rely on accomplishing mutual understanding.
}}

Odebunmi2024

2024-02-09T07:38:27Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-02-09 12:38:27

{{BibEntry
|Key=Odebunmi2024
|Key=Odebunmi2024
|Title=Discursive management of patients’ disagreement with doctors’ recommendations in Nigerian hospital visits
|Author(s)=Akin Odebunmi; Oluwatomi Adeoti;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; doctor-patient interactions; treatment recommendations; medical; participatory actions; non-participatory actions; indirect disagreements; Nigeria
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=1
|Pages=67-87
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231204553
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231204553
|Abstract=Patients’ disagreement with doctors’ treatment recommendations, which receives participatory or non-participatory attention from the consultative parties, constitutes a major discursive issue in clinical encounters. However, the literature on medical discourse has demonstrated more concentration on the participatory than the non-participatory dimension of the encounters. This discursive representation does not adequately capture the consultative encounters in Nigeria where both situations obtain but where none has been significantly studied, leaving a lacuna in the understanding of conflict management in the hospitals. An analysis of 25 purposively sampled doctor-patient interactions in Southwestern Nigerian hospitals was undertaken with theoretical insights from the notion of activity type, common ground models and conversation analysis. Findings indicate that two types of actions are identified in treatment-related indirect disagreement in Nigerian clinical encounters: participatory and non-participatory action. Participatory orientations to indirect disagreement are contextualised in joint therapeutic efficacy or institutional convenience; non-participatory orientations in the same disagreement type are situated in salient emergency. The resulting negotiation, or lack of it, reveals clinical power dynamics, and interpenetrating evocations of the voice of medicine and the voice of the life world in paternalistic and humanistic contexts; and consequently partial or inexistent patient satisfaction. The paper concludes that participatory communication and strategic deployment of humanistic and paternalistic clinical communicative approaches are capable of producing satisfactory consultative encounters in Nigerian hospital visits.
}}

Liu2024

2024-02-09T07:35:40Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-02-09 12:35:40

{{BibEntry
|Key=Liu2024
|Key=Liu2024
|Title=Co-constructing parenthood in multiparty interaction: Orienting to parents’ rights and responsibilities to act on behalf of others
|Author(s)=Ruey-Ying Liu;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; child; family; membership category; multiparty interaction; parenthood
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=1
|Pages=48-66
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231201003
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231201003
|Abstract=Drawing on naturally occurring, multiparty interactional data involving parents, children, and third parties (e.g. friends and relatives), this conversation analytic study investigates how the status of ‘parent’ is co-constructed on a moment-by-moment basis in the course of everyday interaction. The analysis focuses on participant orientation to parents’ rights to act on behalf of their children and third parties, through which parental entitlements, responsibilities, and authority are invoked. Specifically, interaction participants orient to parents as having primary rights to know about their children, determine their courses of action, and take primary responsibilities for their behaviors. Parents also confirm and ratify these category ascriptions by acting on behalf of their children and third parties, demonstrating with actions that they are capable of carrying out their rights and responsibilities as parents. The findings shed light on how the practical relevance of the ‘parent’ membership shapes the sequential unfolding of multiparty interaction.
}}

Reed2024

2024-02-09T07:33:38Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Darren Reed; Jessica Young; Robin Wooffitt;
|Title=Walking with Gail: The local achievement of interactional rhythm and synchrony through footwork
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conversation analysis; Embodied interaction; Dance; Walking
|Key=Reed2024b
|Year=2024
|Language=English
|Journal=Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
|Volume=7
|Number=1
|URL=https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/view/134103
|DOI=10.7146/si.v7i1.134103
|Abstract=By analysing the movements through space of a famous conversation analyst delivering a well-known lecture, this paper reveals the creative construction of space within the social and physical constraints of the lecture hall, and in so doing contributes to the embodied analysis of humans in material environments. While founded in a multimodal or embodied conversation analysis, it uses terminology and insights from dance to help ‘see’ and analyse the movements as ‘footwork’ and ‘figures’.
}}

Reed2024a

2024-02-09T07:33:23Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2024-02-09 12:33:23

{{BibEntry
|Key=Reed2024a
|Key=Reed2024a
|Title=Understanding performance responses: Instructional transitions in musical masterclasses
|Author(s)=Darren J Reed;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; assessments; audience applause; music masterclass instruction; performance completion
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2024
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=26
|Number=1
|Pages=88-116
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231205801
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231205801
|Abstract=This paper extends analysis of the ‘assessment receipt’ to include talk and embodied interaction during ‘performance responses’ in music masterclass interactions. By grounding the analysis in questions of performance completion and audience applause onset, it details the utility of variously position assessment tokens, during performance, before applause, during applause and after applause. These different verbal assessment positions afford, in different ways, instructional interaction by situating the instructor as next relevant speaker. They also help coordinate performance completions and audience applause onset. The paper also identifies the ‘receipt assessment’, which reverses the component ordering of the earlier phenomenon. The paper is relevant to those studying performance as interaction and extends and deepens the growing insights into musical instructional settings.
}}

Willemsen2023b

2023-11-18T06:48:47Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-11-17 11:48:46

{{BibEntry
|Key=Willemsen2023b
|Key=Willemsen2023b
|Title=Expecting the unpredictable: Categorisation of children and youth during driver training
|Author(s)=Annerose Willemsen; Jakob Cromdal; Mathias Broth;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; children; driving; MCA; multimodal conversation analysis; risk awareness; traffic; Swedish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2023
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=25
|Number=6
|Pages=823-845
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231171093
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231171093
|Abstract=This paper presents an analysis of how the particular categories of children and youth are used within the instructional work of learning to drive. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) and multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) of a collection of cases drawn from 85 video-recorded driving lessons, we demonstrate how the participants treat children and youth as a category of traffic users whose main category predicate appears to be their expected unpredictability and carelessness, placing particularly high demands on drivers’ awareness and caution. This is evident in in-event and post-event interactions about traffic encounters with children and youth, as well as in traffic contexts where they have not (yet) been spotted but their sudden appearance is anticipated. The results suggest that the institutional constructions of children and youth as a potential source of trouble prepare trainee drivers for unforeseen events and contingencies and shape their social stock of knowledge as future motorists.
}}

Willemsen2023

2023-11-18T06:47:37Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Annerose Willemsen; Sally Wiggins; Jakob Cromdal;
|Title=Young Children’s mealtimes and eating practices in early childhood education and care: A scoping review of 30 years of research from 1990 to 2020
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Early childhood education and care; Eating practices; Kindergarten; Meals; Preschool; Young children
|Key=Willemsen2023a
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=Educational Research Review
|Volume=38
|Pages=eid: 100503
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1747938X22000720
|DOI=10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100503
|Abstract=Young children’s eating practices and mealtimes within early childhood education and care have attracted considerable attention over the past 30 years, with an increasing focus on nutrition and family-style meals. Research in this field is typically conducted in parallel strands that would benefit from an overview perspective and critical discussion. This article addresses that need, reviewing international research from 166 empirical papers published between January 1990 to December 2020. A scoping literature review was used to inductively identify three core areas of research: i) factors influencing children’s eating practices, ii) teacher’s and children’s perspectives on mealtimes, and iii) situated meal practices. Key trends included a focus on repeated exposure, modeling behavior, teachers’ feeding practices, rules and norms vs. playfulness, and participation in the meal as event. Future research could work across disciplinary boundaries and combine a focus on nutritional concerns with an examination of the multimodal interaction within the mealtimes.
}}

Salomaa2023

2023-11-18T06:46:40Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Elina Salomaa; Esa Lehtinen;
|Title=Public note-taking on a digital platform as a workplace practice
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Affordances; Digital technology; Note-taking; Multimodal conversation analysis; Workplace; Finnish
|Key=Salomaa2023
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=25
|Number=6
|Pages=775-798
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614456231167734
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231167734
|Abstract=Unlike traditional note-taking with pen and paper, in which the note-taking process is only partially accessible to the co-participants, note-taking in the digitalized workplace may be done publicly, so that both the content of notes and the process of writing them are observable to the co-participants. Using multimodally oriented conversation analysis, this study focused on public note-taking in interaction sequences where the facilitator of a workplace project records the results of a workshop discussion on a digital platform. The analysis revealed that while the facilitator was entitled to decide which portions of talk are recorded, the affordances of digital technology, its publicness in particular, enabled the co-participants to monitor the writing process, possibly leading to the editing of notes. The results show that even when note-taking is publicly performed, it is oriented to as an informal form of writing.
}}

Sierra2023

2023-10-29T11:00:01Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-10-29 05:00:01

{{BibEntry
|Key=Sierra2023
|Key=Sierra2023
|Title=“A radical point of view”: The discursive construction of the political identity of student activists
|Author(s)=Sylvia Sierra;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; authentication; discourse analysis; epistemics, political identity; epistemic stance; identity construction
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2023
|Journal=Discourse & Society
|Volume=34
|Number=6
|Pages=772-788
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231174983
|DOI=10.1177/09579265231174983
|Abstract=Recently there has been renewed interest in the intersection of identity and epistemics in social interaction, yet epistemics has still rarely been analyzed in political identity construction. This paper combines research on identity from a sociocultural linguistic perspective with epistemics using Conversation Analysis. The focus here is on understanding how a small group of student activists construct their shared political identities through epistemic stances towards their academic majors and career goals. Through a discourse analytic study of conversational data among these activists, I demonstrate the validity of the relationality principle of identity in accounting for how identities are constructed as related to one another. Furthermore, I examine the relational process of authentication in epistemic stances to legitimate claims to knowledge regarding political and academic identities, as well as alignment of stances in building group solidarity and shared political identity.
}}

SzczepekReed2023

2023-09-27T16:16:40Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Beatrice Szczepek Reed;
|Title=Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Animals; Recipient Design; Conversation analysis
|Key=SzczepekReed2023b
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=Research On Language and Social Interaction
|Volume=56
|Number=2
|Pages=89-115
|URL=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08351813.2023.2170638
|DOI=10.1080/08351813.2023.2170638
|Abstract=This analysis shows how, in horse-riding lessons, riding instructors use prosody and other sound patterns to design their talk for human and equine recipients at the same time, while orienting to distinct contributions from each. Practices for doing so include nonlexical vocalizations, marked prosodic delivery, and conventionalized lexical-prosodic bundles. Parallel recipient design allows turn-holders to pursue a single activity that is to be performed jointly by the recipient pair. Parallel recipient design is shown to be distinct from alternating recipient design, to be found during multiactivity. Parallel recipient design can be delivered consecutively, with talk designed to mobilize the rider followed by talk designed to mobilize the horse; or simultaneously, with lexical items performing one action to the rider and their prosodic delivery performing another action to the horse. The data are recordings of naturally occurring horse-riding lessons, mostly in English; some data are in German, with English translations.
}}

Clayman2023b

2023-09-10T13:15:28Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-09-10 07:15:27

{{BibEntry
|Key=Clayman2023b
|Key=Clayman2023b
|Title=Dispatching First Responders: Language Practices and the Dispatcher’s Operational Role in Radio Encounters With Police Officers
|Author(s)=Steven E Clayman; Heidi Kevoe-Feldman;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Dispatch; Public safety communications; Police, Two-way radio; Emergency calls
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2023
|Journal=Discourse & Society
|Volume=34
|Number=5
|Pages=547-571
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231164763
|DOI=10.1177/09579265231164763
|Abstract=The delivery of emergency services is often contingent on social processes launched when someone calls to request help. While initial encounters between civilian callers and institutional call-takers have been extensively studied, little is known about subsequent encounters between dispatchers and first responders. This paper examines police radio dispatch calls and the language practices enacting the dispatcher’s operational role. It sketches the technological constraints and communicative challenges of the two-way radio medium, and the overall activity structure of radio dispatch. It then focuses on the design of dispatchers’ instructions to officers. The instruction has a recurrent base form but may be expanded with optional material addressing atypical or specialized circumstances. Accordingly, dispatchers are not passive conduits of information transfer; working within the constraints of the radio medium, they elaborate and reframe the available information in ways that triage the problem and aid in its downstream management.
}}

Clayman2023

2023-09-10T13:13:03Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Steven E. Clayman; John Heritage;
|Title=Pressuring the President: Changing language practices and the growth of political accountability
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Conduciveness; Conventional indirectness; Interrogatives; Negative interrogatives; News conferences; Presidential news conferences; Press conferences; Questions; Response preference
|Key=Clayman2023a
|Year=2023
|Journal=Journal of Pragmatics
|Volume=207
|Pages=62–74
|URL=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216623000206
|DOI=10.1016/j.pragma.2023.01.014
|Abstract=This paper examines two historical trends in practices of questioning deployed across a half-century (1953–2000) of U.S. presidential news conferences (164 conferences, 4608 questions): (1) the decline of conventionally indirect question forms, and (2) the rise of negative interrogatives as a polar question format. Both trends show journalists to be exerting increasing pressure on presidents over time but they differ in the nature of that pressure, with the decline of indirectness involving pressure to answer the question at all, and the rise of negative interrogatives involving pressure to answer in a particular way (affirmatively). Both trends have been noted in previous research, but here we take a closer look at how they differ in the pace of change over time, and their varying sensitivity to the exogenous sociopolitical landscape. Among conventionally indirect question frames, contrasting trendlines for “ability” versus “willingness” frames are also examined. All of these language-practice trends span the era of the public questioning of presidents and are thus implicated in mechanisms of governmental accountability.
}}

Stokoe2023

2023-05-07T05:22:20Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-05-06 11:22:20

{{BibEntry
|Key=Stokoe2023
|Key=Stokoe2023
|Title=Asking for help without asking for help: How victims request and police offer assistance in cases of domestic violence when perpetrators are potentially co-present
|Author(s)=Elizabeth Stokoe; Emma Richardson;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; assistance; conversation analysis; domestic violence; emergency services; police; requests
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England
|Year=2023
|Month=mar
|Journal=Discourse Analysis
|Volume=25
|Number=3
|Pages=383–408
|URL=https://journals-sagepub-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/14614456231157293
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231157293
|Abstract=Requesting police assistance can be especially challenging in cases of domestic violence, since perpetrators may be able to overhear victims' telephone calls. This means that callers may not be abl...
}}

XZhang2023

2023-05-07T05:21:46Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-05-06 11:21:46

{{BibEntry
|Key=XZhang2023
|Key=XZhang2023
|Title=Constructing mediator identities through questioning in Chinese televised mediation
|Author(s)=Xian Zhang; Yanbiao Dong;
|Tag(s)=Chinese televised mediation; conversation analysis; mediator identities; poststructuralist discourse analysis; questioning; Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=SAGE Publications
|Year=2023
|Month=jun
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=25
|Number=3
|Pages=430–451
|URL=https://journals-sagepub-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/14614456221139202
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221139202/ASSET/IMAGES/LARGE/10.1177_14614456221139202-FIG2.JPEG
|Abstract=This study, integrating poststructuralist discourse analysis and conversation analysis, analyzes how the question-answer sequences construct mediators' dynamic identities during Chinese televised mediation. The research shows that different mediators in the team tend to employ different types of questions at varying stages; that questions serve not only to elicit information but also to manage the multilateral talk, to make assertions, to persuade, and to construct different identities; that different mediators' identities include the manager, the reality tester, the moral educator, the facilitator, and the entertainer. Instead of remaining neutral, they might step out of the neutralistic circle and adhere to the golden mean. The complex representation of these identities is deeply rooted in China's cultural and socioeconomic background. This study provides a thorough understanding of the interplay between questioning and identity in institutional contexts and the mechanism of Chinese televised mediation.
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Zhang2023

2023-05-07T05:21:03Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Tianhao Zhang;
|Title=Contesting Reports of Racism, Contesting the Rights to Assess
|Tag(s)=Membership Categorization; Racism
|Key=TZhang2023
|Year=2023
|Journal=Social Psychology Quarterly
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725221117834
|DOI=10.1177/01902725221117834
|Abstract=Analyzing a thread of online interaction, I apply conversation analysis and discursive psychology methods to explicate how experiences of racism are reported and contested by participants in interaction. The person reporting their experience of racism (the reporter) applies commonsense knowledge to assess the perpetrator's racist intent. Recipients of the report contest the reporter's rights to assess the perpetrator's intent while managing their lack of independent access to the reported encounter. In milder contestations, they cast doubt while avoiding assessing the situation themselves, which leads to negotiations over the accusation without contesting the correctness of the reporter's assessment. In aggravated contestations, recipients explicitly contest the reporter's assessment of the perpetrator, which leads to interactional breakdowns where moral culpabilities of both sides are implicated. Implications for understanding the moral difficulties involved in accusing racism, the interactional contingencies involved in responding to and contesting such accusations, and members’ understandings of racism are discussed.
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Andréasson2023

2023-05-07T05:17:03Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2023-05-06 11:17:03

{{BibEntry
|Key=Andréasson2023
|Key=Andréasson2023
|Title=Category relations and norms of feelings in children's performances of a boyfriend-girlfriend culture
|Author(s)=Fredrik Andréasson; Ann Carita Evaldsson;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; conversation analysis; ethnography; evaluative practices; jocular play; language socialization; membership categorization analysis; middle school; peer interaction; relationship categories; romantic feelings; romantic relationships; Swedish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Publisher=SAGE Publications Ltd
|Year=2023
|Month=mar
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=25
|Number=3
|Pages=321–341
|URL=https://journals-sagepub-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/14614456231158510
|DOI=10.1177/14614456231158510/ASSET/IMAGES/LARGE/10.1177_14614456231158510-FIG6.JPEG
|Abstract=This study explores how preteen children in everyday interaction mobilize relationship categories to negotiate what counts as appropriate romantic feelings among peers. The analysis draws on ethnomethodological work on membership categorization and conversation analysis, integrated with ethnographic knowledge of children's social life. Particular attention is on how children make claims of and resist membership in a particular relationship category (that of boyfriend-girlfriend). The sequential analysis shows how category-based claims of ‘liking someone' and ‘being together,' indexing a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, are responded to with resistance and denials. Categorical claims are also turned into public performances of relational pairing invoking the normative character of romantic matchmaking. The findings suggest that norms of feelings play a central role in preteen children's emotional behavior, and serve as important cultural resources for children to address their emergent concerns regarding peer group relationships.
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Yasui2023

2023-05-07T05:10:49Z

BogdanaHuma:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Eiko Yasui;
|Title=Sequence-initial pointing: Spotlighting what just happened as a cause of a new sequence
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Pointing; Gesture; Conversation analysis; Multimodality; Participation status
|Key=Yasui2023
|Year=2023
|Language=English
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=25
|Number=409–429
|URL=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614456221132464
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221132464
|Abstract=Drawing on microanalysis of interaction, this study examines the practice a pointing gesture accomplishes in initiating a new sequence in relation to what just happened when another line of interaction is still developing. Specifically, it is an investigation of the cases in which a participant points at a current or adjacent prior speaker with their index finger, comments on their current or adjacent prior action, and laughs. Such pointing spotlights what the target is currently doing or just did and locates them as a cause of the laughter. The pointing participant then invites laughter from others by shifting their gaze toward others while continuing to point. The analysis shows that such practice presents new participation statuses of the recipients and enables the producer of the pointing to initiate a teasing sequence; the gaze shift can invite laughter from others while the pointing indicates the target of the teasing. The study thus reveals interactional tasks of pointing gestures beyond their referential function.
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Tiitinen2022

2022-11-17T14:27:15Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-11-17 07:27:15

{{BibEntry
|Key=Tiitinen2022
|Key=Tiitinen2022
|Title=Recruitment interviews for intermediate labour markets: Identity construction under ambiguous expectations
|Author(s)=Sanni Tiitinen; Tea Lempiälä;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; MCA; identity; institutional interaction; intermediate labour markets; recruitment interviews; Finnish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=6
|Pages=758-780
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221112276
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221112276
|Abstract=Intermediate labour markets (ILMs) provide fixed-term work opportunities and coaching for people in disadvantaged positions in labour markets. We study 46 sequences from six audio-recorded recruitment interviews for an ILM job targetted at people who have been unemployed for a prolonged period. Using an ethnomethodological approach to identity, membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis, we study how interviewers and candidates construct and negotiate who is fit for the ILM job. We present interactional moves through which the participants jointly construct the ‘fit for the ILM job’ category and treat the candidate’s membership in it as a positive matter. Further, we demonstrate how the candidates are put in an interactionally difficult position in the interview as there are contradictory and ambiguous expectations about the ideal candidate. We discuss the results in relation to the interactional and institutional logics of a recruitment interview and suggest that enhancing the transparency might reinforce ethics of recruitment in ILMs.
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Hansen2022

2022-11-17T14:22:33Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-11-17 07:22:32

{{BibEntry
|Key=Hansen2022
|Key=Hansen2022
|Title=Recruiting repair: Making sense of interpreters’ embodied actions in a video-mediated environment
|Author(s)=Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; embodied actions; interpreting; multimodality; other-initiated repair; recruitment; repair; video-mediated interaction; Norwegian
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=6
|Pages=719-740
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221112261
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221112261
|Abstract=This article examines interpreters’ embodied displays of trouble in hospital encounters in Norway. In these meetings, participants speak different languages, and the interpreters, that is multilinguals with interpreter education and other formal qualifications, produce utterances in either of the languages in question. As such, the specific interaction in which these embodied displays of trouble occur is mediated in two ways, it is both interpreter-mediated and video-mediated. Video-recordings of hospital settings where the interpreting is carried out through use of video-technology are analyzed using multimodal conversation analysis. The interpreters’ embodied displays of trouble are found resemble recruitmens and are found to initiate repair. The article shows that while the embodied display of trouble might be a versatile device to initiate repair within the video-mediated environment, the video-mediated environment provides a complex interactional space for the perception of the embodied action.
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Ha2022

2022-11-17T14:20:17Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-11-17 07:20:17

{{BibEntry
|Key=Ha2022
|Key=Ha2022
|Title=Epistemic stance in Korean assessment pairs: The role of evidential and non-evidential sentence-ending suffixes
|Author(s)=Kyoungmi Ha;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; assessments; discourse analysis; epistemic stance; evidentiality; Korean; sentence-ending suffixes
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=6
|Pages=692-718
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221106019
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221106019
|Abstract=Studies in conversation analysis (CA) have shown that in assessments, various linguistic resources are used to express epistemic stance in ordinary conversation. In Korean conversation, although the evidential and non-evidential functions of sentence-ending (SE) suffixes are well recognized, little research has been done on their relation to epistemic stance and their use in assessments. In this study, using naturally-occurring conversation data and the CA framework, I analyze 59 cases of a speaker’s first assessment regarding his/her interlocutor and 49 responses to these first assessments (second assessments). I argue that in Korean assessment pairs, the evidential and non-evidential SE suffixes are used as a resource for expressing epistemic stance. The results show that 74.4\% of the first assessments were marked with an evidential SE suffix whereas 71.4\% of the second assessments were marked with a non-evidential SE suffix. Furthermore, certain evidential SE suffixes are used as a resource to convey a downgraded epistemic stance in first assessments whereas certain non-evidential SE suffixes are used to express epistemic primacy in second assessments.
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Bellavance2022

2022-11-17T14:18:07Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-11-17 07:18:07

{{BibEntry
|Key=Bellavance2022
|Key=Bellavance2022
|Title=Epistemic responsibility predicts developing frame awareness in early childhood: A language socialization perspective
|Author(s)=Sarah Rose Bellavance;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; child language; discourse analysis; epistemics; frame analysis; interview; language socialization; make-believe; positioning
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=6
|Pages=675-691
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221111640
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221111640
|Abstract=This article examines the emergent relationship between epistemic responsibility and frame awareness in early childhood, wherein a mother uses language socialization practices to guide her child into a new frame. The pair co-constructs the parameters of the new frame through negotiation of epistemic responsibility and remedial interchanges. The analysis demonstrates that these remedial interchanges arise from conflicting understandings of the embeddedness of frames and the epistemic dynamics that these frames entail. The child maintains epistemic primacy in her concurrent play frame, which carries over to the recording activity given that the recording activity is embedded within her larger play frame. I argue that the data predict epistemic responsibility to be acquired earlier than the ability to shift epistemic dynamics outside of role-play. This study contributes to our understanding of frame and epistemic development in early childhood.
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Tranekjær2022

2022-09-30T20:09:42Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-09-30 02:09:42

{{BibEntry
|Key=Tranekjær2022
|Key=Tranekjær2022
|Title=Constructing and negotiating the professional identity of ‘leader’ by suggesting and challenging improvement of professional practices: Deontics in a four-part sequential structure
|Author(s)=Louise Tranekjær; Brian L Due; Mie Femø Nielsen;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; four-part sequential structure; identity; institutional interaction; leadership; proposal sequences; video ethnography; Danish
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=5
|Pages=640-661
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221108604
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221108604
|Abstract=The paper contributes to previous studies of identity as locally and interactionally produced by pointing to some of the multimodal resources employed by participants to achieving, challenge and manage the professional identity of ‘leader’ in different workplace settings. We examine professional identity work in sequential environments where it provides a resource for handling the resistance to improvement displayed by another participant. We show how leader identity work gets embedded within a four-part structure of: (1) identifying a problem, (2) proposing improvements, (3) misaligning with others’ proposals, and (4) managing the misalignment. The paper is based on video ethnographic fieldwork and recordings of face-to-face institutional interaction at two different institutional settings in Denmark. The study provides insight about the role of identity work in the interactional achievement of institutional procedures.
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Margutti2022

2022-09-30T20:07:18Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-09-30 02:07:18

{{BibEntry
|Key=Margutti2022
|Key=Margutti2022
|Title=The multiple constraints of addressed questions in whole-class interaction: Responses from unaddressed pupils
|Author(s)=Piera Margutti;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; address questions; children’s interactional competence; classroom interaction; ; next-speaker selection; pupils’ responses; question-answer preference organization; turn-taking rules; whole-class interaction; Italian
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=5
|Pages=612-639
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221099177
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221099177
|Abstract=This article explores pupils’ responses to addressed questions in two third-year primary school classes, organized as plenary interaction and based on the next-speaker selection. In this context, unaddressed pupils often produce responses of various kinds spontaneously, showing that the next-speaker selection per se does not exclude unaddressed pupils from participating. Analysis of the design and position of these responses show their orderly nature as mainly depending on the following dimensions: the position of the address term in the question and who has primary access to answers. Pupils’ responses display a high level of awareness of the next-speaker selection rule operating in this setting, and more globally, of the turn-taking system. This competence enables pupils to understand and navigate the other-selection rule, often gaining their right to speakership. In line with prior studies on multiparty interactions, the article shows that teachers’ questions pose multiple constraints on responses.
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Ke2022

2022-09-30T20:04:25Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-09-30 02:04:24

{{BibEntry
|Key=Ke2022
|Key=Ke2022
|Title=‘I (don’t) want X/Y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in Chinese Mediation Resources
|Author(s)=Xianbing Ke;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Discursive Psychology; court-related mediation; formulating strategies; mediation intentions; mediation mechanism; wants; formulations; Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=5
|Pages=590-611
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221108595
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221108595
|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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Pan2022

2022-09-30T19:59:19Z

BogdanaHuma: BibTeX auto import 2022-09-30 01:59:19

{{BibEntry
|Key=Pan2022
|Key=Pan2022
|Title=Continuing assessments in online dating: Enabling relational development between potential romantic partners in WeChat conversations
|Author(s)=Shuyi Pan; Yumei Gan;
|Tag(s)=EMCA; assessment; continuing assessments; online dating; romantic relationships; Mandarin Chinese
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Year=2022
|Journal=Discourse Studies
|Volume=24
|Number=5
|Pages=545-565
|URL=https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221108597
|DOI=10.1177/14614456221108597
|Abstract=Potential romantic partners often employ specific communicative strategies in computer-mediated communication based on their anticipation of future interactions. This conversation analytic study examines the practice of assessments used in WeChat conversations between potential romantic partners. We found that people recurrently mobilize the action of assessment to maintain or terminate their relationships. Especially, people tend to provide more assessments after an initial assessment, which we term ‘continuing assessment’. We show that continuing assessments are sequentially organized in conversational context between co-participants and are essential for relational developments. When potential partners aim to maintain or advance their relationships, continuing assessments are used to prevent a structurally integrated conversation from falling into closure. In contrast, continuing assessments are applied to put an end to the dialogue and to manage face work. Our study furthers the understanding of the communicative strategies of online dating.
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