Extreme case formulations in Spanish pre-electoral debates and English panel interviews

Íñigo-Mora, Isabel

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“…Previous research on politicians has widely explored the discursive, pragmatic semiotic and sociolinguistic aspects of their speech: Fairclough (1989Fairclough ( , 1998, Joseph & Taylor (1990), Wilson (1990), Drew & Heritage (1992), Hodge & Kress (1993), Johnstone (1996Johnstone ( , 2000Johnstone ( , 2009, Íñigo-Mora (1996Íñigo-Mora ( , 2005Íñigo-Mora ( , 2007, Bull (1998Bull ( , 2003Bull ( , 2007Bull ( , 2008Bull ( , 2012, Beard (1999), Blas-Arroyo (2003), Nunberg (2001Nunberg ( , 2004, Chilton (2003), Koester (2004), Charteris-Black (2006) …”

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The effects of public and individual language attitudes on intra-speaker variation: A case study of style-shifting

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Cutillas-Espinosa

2013

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The present study focuses on the language attitudes underlying patterns of stylistic variation in the speech of a female former President of the Spanish local Government of Murcia. We build on previous quantitative work demonstrating that this speaker shows unexpectedly high usage levels for nonstandard Murcian Spanish features in public speech, despite this being a stigmatised dialect enjoying covert prestige. However, in a private interview conducted with her, not only does the President expresses positive attitudes toward the dialect, but also her private speech is even more non-standard than her public speech, suggesting that she tempers her dialect usage in public contexts, too. The quantitative and qualitative analyses demonstrate that, through examination of public and individual language attitudes in which features and varieties derive their social connotations, we gain insights into how and why speakers sometimes purposefully use non-standard forms in formal public speech and sometimes less self-consciously orient themselves toward standard norms.

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The effects of public and individual language attitudes on intra-speaker variation: A case study of style-shifting

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Cutillas-Espinosa

2013

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“…See Couper-Kuhlen (2014), Plug (2014). There is also a small literature on "extreme case formulations (Edwards 2000;Inigo-Mora 2007;Norrick 2004;Pomerantz 1986;Robles 2015;Sidnell 2004).…”

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The properties of indexical expressions are ordered properties, and…that they are ordered is an ongoing, practical accomplishment of every actual occasion of commonplace speech and conduct" Garfinkel and Sacks (1970:341). suicides, others not. Thus, the procedure used in such classification, "the fact of the fact," was of capital importance. Durkheim's findings were built on "facts" of uncertain provenance (Douglas 1971). Cicourel (1968) studied how criminal statistics were generated through the interpretive procedures of officials in the criminal justice system. Wieder (1974) describes how behavior in a halfway house was categorized in accordance with a prisoners' code and how, through that categorization, the behaviors were made visible as recognizable forms of social action.Categories are not only administered after the fact. Ethnomethodologists are also sensitive to the work that goes into making an entity categorizable in a particular way.The foundational work in this connection is Garfinkel's (1967) study of Agnes, a transsexual. Garfinkel described in detail Agnes' methods for presenting herself as a recognizable female. There is some tension between these two approaches to categories.Is social order produced by categorizing and otherwise accounting for inchoate behavior, or is behavior constructed in fine detail so as to be categorizable and otherwise accountable? In either case, categories are a product of members' methods for producing and recognizing phenomena. We are directed to look at the "work" that goes into this production and recognition.Another essential grounding for the work presented in this book is sequential conversation analysis (as opposed to categorical analysis, Sacks' other major interest).Conversation analysis (CA) is the study of the organization of talk-in-interaction. We run here into a terminological problem: does CA include Sacksian category analysis or only the study of the sequential organization of talk-in-interaction? When I want to be specific, I will refer to sequential analysis (SA) and category analysis (CtA). I use CA more generally to include both, not only because SA and CtA are both associated with Sacks but also because they share features in common. As with ethnomethodology, the CA focus is on members' methods in the production of social order. CA is characterized by a set of methodological techniques and perspectives: primarily, recording of ''natural'' data, participant orientation, attention to detail (''order at all points,'' as Sacks from another possible formulation, and also from not doing it at all (1992, Vol. 1: 516).Sacks is making two major points about formulations. One, of course, is that they are inevitably a way of doing, not merely saying, something, a notion familiar to us from speech act theory, although Sacks' notion of ''doing'' is broader. But he makes another crucial point with ''non-alternatively'' and ''differentiated from another possible formulation,'' namely, that a formulation is a choice from among a number of alternative ways of identi...

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“…Although there has not been a great deal of research into the contextual use of ECFs, some of the places that ECFs can be found are in settings where ideologically charged topics are being discussed. Some examples are courtroom interactions (Sidnell, 2004), political debates (Iñigo-Mora, 2007), and multicultural educational situations (Whitehead & Wittig, 2004).…”

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“…One class of hyperbole is the “extreme case formulation” (ECF) (Iñigo-Mora, 2007; Norrick, 2004). Based on the continuum idea, placing ECFs in the category of hyperbole also indicates that they should be considered to be at the extremity of this semantic scale (Burgers, Konijn, & Steen, 2016).…”

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“I belong to the days of the dinosaurs”: Extreme case formulation in therapeutic practice.

Kiyimba¹

2020

Qualitative Psychology

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This article written for a special issue on discourse analysis is based on a small data sample of empirical examples, the primary purpose being to explicate an applied discursive psychology (DP) approach to the analysis of extreme case formulations (ECFs) in institutional talk. The interactional function of ECFs such as "never," "always," and "no one" was first highlighted by Pomerantz in 1986 whereby participants could justify or defend their assessments in situations of potential challenge. In 2000 Edwards further demonstrated this device could perform "nonliteral" metaphorical and therefore ostensibly nonaccountable descriptions. This article has sought to further examine the use of nonliteral extremity in hyperbole and ECFs within family therapy interactions as an example of DP analysis. Existing literature indicates that typically where initial assessments are provided, second assessments become immediately conditionally relevant, and to confer agreement are generally produced in an upgraded format (Pomerantz, 1984). The findings of this DP study indicated that when initial assessments contained hyperbole or extreme formulation, the respondent treated them as nonliteral and the second assessments produced tended to be extremity denials plus downgrades. Additionally, within family therapy, the client's use of an ECF did not serve the usual function of guarding against further account-seeking or contradiction, but instead was reformulated by the therapist with an ECF statement downgrade. The implications of these findings are that they may shed further light on the contextual differences of where ECFs are used.

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Extreme case formulations in Spanish pre-electoral debates and English panel interviews

Cited by 37 publications

References 11 publications

The effects of public and individual language attitudes on intra-speaker variation: A case study of style-shifting

The effects of public and individual language attitudes on intra-speaker variation: A case study of style-shifting

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“I belong to the days of the dinosaurs”: Extreme case formulation in therapeutic practice.

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