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Wooffitt2008b
BibType	ARTICLE
Key	Wooffitt2008b
Author(s)	Robin Wooffitt, Simon Allistone
Title	Participation, procedure and accountability: 'you said' speech markers in negotiating reports of ambiguous phenomena
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Tag(s)	EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Accountability, Reported Speech, Institutional interaction
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Year	2008
Language	English
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Journal	Discourse Studies
Volume	10
Number	3
Pages	407–427
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DOI	10.1177/1461445608090225
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-|Abstract=In this article we study how reported speech markers are used as procedural resources in a laboratory based parapsychology experiment to investigate forms of anomalous communication, such as extrasensory perception. In particular, we focus on how specific activities in a key part of the experiment are mediated by the use of `you said' formulations which project that whatever is said next is a paraphrase or a verbatim report of what the recipient had said earlier. We identify two uses of reported speech markers. First, they are used in utterances that initiate some form of repair, such as correction or clarification. Second, they cluster in sequential locations that mark, after a temporary suspension, the resumption of key activities in the experiment. In this we hope to contribute to the study of the institutional properties of reported speech. We conclude by discussing the ways in which broader cultural understandings of the inferential force of `you said' formulations inform their use in this institutional setting, and reflecting on the significance of these findings for parapsychological investigation of anomalous communication in this setting.
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