2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2010.01050.x
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Conflict, Cooperation, and Facework inContrastoVerbal Duels

Abstract: Tuscan Contrasto verbal duels reveal a subtly complex relationship between conflict and cooperation, and between face and insults. In these duels, the performers use their arguing skills to debate the politics and morality of contemporary Italy, calling attention to contradictions. The artists cooperate in building disagreement and heightening wider social conflicts, while insults may contribute to a successful performance, thus enhancing face. The study of these duels requires a rethinking of concepts such as… Show more

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“… Disagreement is expected, for example, in Contrasto verbal duels and often in political debates (see also Locher and Watts 2005, Tetreault 2010, Pagliai 2010). …”
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“… Disagreement is expected, for example, in Contrasto verbal duels and often in political debates (see also Locher and Watts 2005, Tetreault 2010, Pagliai 2010). …”
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“…Children articulate and negotiate conditions of group membership (Goodwin, 1983(Goodwin, , 1990(Goodwin, , 2006(Goodwin, , 2007. As Pagliai (2010) argues, for participants to be successful in a dispute, they must cooperate, in our case, exchanging insults. Special in this case is that the parents rather than peers try to help an adolescent to meet the standards of the peer group.…”
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confidence: 98%
“…In another context of communication impoliteness could be as constructive critiques to come a better or positive point of view (Jamet & Jobert, 2013). An utterance containing impoliteness, likes insult, are not necessarily face threatening and cannot be always interpreted as aggressive or violent to the hearer (Pagliai, 2010). It is more than justrevealing emotive expression of disappointment and other feelings.…”
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confidence: 99%