Pillet-Shore2018
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Pillet-Shore2018 |
| Author(s) | Danielle Pillet-Shore |
| Title | Arriving: Expanding the Personal State Sequence |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Opening sequences, personal state displays |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language & Social Interaction |
| Volume | 51 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 232-247 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2018.1485225 |
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Abstract
When arriving to a social encounter, how and when can a person show how s/he is doing/feeling? This article answers this question, examining personal state sequences in copresent openings of casual (residential) and institutional (parent-teacher) encounters. Describing a regular way participants constitute—andmovetoexpand—these sequences, this research shows how arrivers display a nonneutral (e.g., negative, humorous, positive) personal state by both (1) deploying interactionally timed stance-marking embodiments that enact a nonneutral state, and (2) invoking a selected previous activity/experience positioned as pre- cipitating that nonneutral state. Data demonstrate that arrivers time their nonneutral personal state displays calibrated to their understand- ing of their relationship with coparticipants. Analysis reveals that arri- vers use this action to proffer a firsthand experience as a self-attentive first topic that works as a bid for empathy, inviting recipients to collaborate in expanding the personal state sequence and thereby cocreate an empathic moment. Data in American English.
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