From passing-gesture to ‘true’ romance: Kin-based teasing in Murriny Patha conversation

Blythe, Joe

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.11.005

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“…Our first Murrinhpatha extract from Wadeye 7 illustrates a highly accurate sweeping point. In Extract (1), four women are discussing a widespread practice of displaying deference to affinal kin by holding the forearm whilst passing objects to them (Blythe, 2012;Blythe et al, 2018;Garde, 2013;Green, 2020). At line 4 Lily asserts this practice is adopted all over the 'top end' of the Northern Territory, waving her arm behind her in an arc between south-east and north-east.…”

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Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations

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It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages; and that the lackadaisical points produced by North American English speakers is an outcome of relative frame being dominant in English. We test this claim by comparing locational pointing in contexts of place reference in conversations conducted in two Australian Aboriginal languages, Murrinhpatha and Gija, and in Australian English spoken by non-Aboriginal residents of a small town in north Western Australia. Pointing behaviour is remarkably similar across the three groups and all participants display a capacity to point accurately regardless of linguistic frame of reference options. We suggest that these speakers’ intimate knowledge of the surrounding countryside better explains their capacity to accurately point to distant locations.

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“…But teasing in response to these stimuli is rare in the ACE corpus, as are teases which jocularly reproach the target for an earlier transgression or unintentional blunder (Drew 1987;Straehle 1993). In ACE, teasing is commonly occasioned in response to an innocuous comment by the target which is then exploited by the producer for its humorous potential (Armstrong 1992;Blythe 2012). I reconceptualise jocular mockery to reflect this.…”

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Teasing in informal contexts in English as an Asian lingua franca

Walkinshaw

2016

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

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This paper explores how speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) manage the interactional back-and-forth of teasing, a social action which, being fundamentally ambiguous, is open to interpretation by a target and/or other participants as aggressive in intent. The data reported here draw on the Asian Corpus of English (ACE), and describe some of the more typical teasing practices which occur among Asian ELF speakers in informal, non-task-focused contexts. More specifically, this research explores the interpersonal functions which teasing performs in ACE interactions; the teasing strategies commonly employed to serve these functions; and the responses of recipients to teases targeting them. The data show that teasing is a common practice in interaction among Asian ELF speakers, and is accomplished through a variety of strategies such as jocular mockery, jocular agreement with a target’s negative self-assessment, jocular insult, and banter. Significantly, teasing in ACE appears to be essentially jocular rather than conveying veiled aggression; markers such as laughter, heightened vocal pitch and lexical exaggeration are commonly employed to signpost the non-serious nature of such utterances. Teases are also commonly received as jocular by recipients; there are no instances of offense being expressed by a tease recipient.

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“…Mockery can be projected within a non-serious or humorous frame, and thus as a "laughable", in a number of ways, including through various combinations of laughter particles, prosodic or phonetic cues, lexical exaggeration, implicit contrasts with known facts, formulaicity and topic shift markers, as well as facial or gestural cues (Haugh 2010a), as has been noted in studies of teasing and improprieties more generally (Blythe 2012;Drew 1987;Jefferson, Sacks and Schegloff 1987;Holt 2007;Straehle 1993;Sidnell 2011).…”

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“…Haugh and Bousfield 2012;Yu 2013), fostering interpersonal solidarity in order to maintain individual relationships and in-groups, alongside excluding others thereby creating out-groups (e.g. Adetunji 2013;Blythe 2012;Boxer and Cortés-Conde 1997;Butler 2007;Haugh 2010aHaugh , 2011Norrick 1993;Straehle 1993), claiming or ascribing identities (e.g. Drew 1987;Queen 2005;Schnurr 2009), defusing conflict and mitigating potential offence or embarrassment (e.g.…”

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Jocular Mockery as Interactional Practice in Everyday Anglo-Australian Conversation

Haugh

2014

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Teasing in everyday interactions, which combines elements of (ostensible) provocation and (ostensible) playfulness in a figurative cutting down or diminishment of a target, has been the subject of a growing body of studies. However, what has arguably not been as well studied to date is the interactional mechanics of the different kinds of social actions through which teasing is accomplished. In this paper, the way in which teasing as mocking/ridiculing can be accomplished within a jocular or non-serious frame, or what is here termed jocular mockery, is examined building on methodological and analytical insights from both interactional pragmatics and corpus-assisted pragmatics. It is argued based on this analysis that jocular mockery constitutes a recognisable and recurrent practice in everyday interactions amongst (Anglo-)Australian speakers of English. A framework for examining the dynamics of jocular mockery within everyday interactions is also proposed.

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From passing-gesture to ‘true’ romance: Kin-based teasing in Murriny Patha conversation

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations

Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations

Teasing in informal contexts in English as an Asian lingua franca

Jocular Mockery as Interactional Practice in Everyday Anglo-Australian Conversation

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