Robles2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Robles2017a |
| Author(s) | Jessica S. Robles |
| Title | Misunderstanding as a resource in interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, discourse analysis, misunderstanding, repair, reference, inference, intersubjectivity |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Pragmatics |
| Volume | 27 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 57–86 |
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| DOI | 10.1075/prag.27.1.03rob |
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Abstract
Te phenomenon of misunderstanding is a recurrent feature of everyday life – sometimes a source of frustration, sometimes a site of blame. But mis- understandings can also be seen as getting interactants out of (as well as into) trouble. For example, misunderstandings may be produced to deal with dis- afliative implications of ‘not being on the same page,’ and as such they may be deployed as a resource for avoiding trouble. Tis paper examines misunder- standing as a pragmatic accomplishment, focusing on the uses to which it is put in interactions as a practice for dealing with threats to intersubjectivity: the extent to which persons are aligned in terms of a current referent, activity, as- sessment, etc. A multimodal discourse analysis of audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring talk inspects moments in which misunderstandings are purported or displayed (rather than overtly invoked) as well as how such misunderstandings are oriented to as simply-repairable references, versus in- ferential matters more misaligned and potentially fraught. Rather than being a straightforward refection of an experience of trouble with understanding, misunderstanding may also be collaboratively produced to manage practical challenges to intersubjectivity.
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