Conversation Analysis and Affiliation and Alignment

Abstract

When people respond in interaction they will invariably indicate whether they cooperate with aspects of the utterances they respond to.

La construcción del diálogo en La Celestina: las secuencias de reparación=The construction of dialogue in La Celestina: repair sequences

“…Los conceptos de alineación y afiliación remiten a la "obediencia" a estas restricciones. Se suele hacer una distinción (Steensig, 2013) entre estos dos conceptos: se habla de alineación cuando la cooperación se establece en el nivel estructural de la acción conversacional: los interlocutores llevan a cabo la actividad o secuencia propuesta por el turno previo (pares y tríos adyacentes); se ajustan a los roles interaccionales diseñados por aquel; aceptan los presupuestos, temas y preferencias proyectadas en él, y se adecuan al formato lingüístico preferido de respuesta. En cambio, se suele utilizar el término afiliación para aquellos aspectos más subjetivos de coincidencia o acuerdo con la posición evaluativa y la perspectiva del hablante previo y con la muestra de empatía y cooperación hacia él.…”

Gaúchos Versus Não Gaúchos: O Uso De Língua Adicional Para a Construção De Identidades Sociais E Oposições Interacionais Em Sala De Aula

“…Neste trabalho, adota-se a noção de participação baseada nas contribuições de Goodwin e Goodwin (2004) alinhamento, e não a um posicionamento (STIVERS, 2008, STEENSIG, 2012. Concordar ou discordar, portanto, guarda relação com afiliar-se ou não a um posicionamento tomado por outro participantes, e não com a ação que ele realizou.…”

Transformative continuations, (dis)affiliation, and accountability in Japanese interaction

“…It involves a particular focus on "the study, by observer-analysts, of what particular form-function relationships are taken to mean by user-participants in particular situated, sequential contexts, and how this can vary across those participants" (Culpeper and Haugh 2014: 266). The focus of analysis was therefore not on the interactional mechanics of joint productions in Japanese per se The distinction made in CA between alignment and affiliation (Steensig 2013;Stivers 2008;Stivers et al 2011) was nevertheless drawn upon in our analysis as it proved critical to our characterization of transformative continuations. Broadly speaking, alignment concerns the structural level of cooperation, while affiliation concerns the affective level (Stivers et al 2011: 20), with the latter notion building upon and extending Heritage's (1984) initial characterization of affiliation as a stance that is "supportive of social solidarity" (Heritage 1984: 269).…”