Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings

Tovares, Alla V.

doi:10.1177/0957926516651365

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“…This study examines university students' and tutors' framing behaviors for meaning construction and negotiation in interactive small group talk. University small group talk manifests complexity in framing (Tovares 2016). First, framing in university small group talk is found to be more straightforward than what is identified in everyday interaction (see Gordon 2009).…”

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Framing in interactive academic talk

Pan

2021

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Framing involves how language users conceptualize what is happening in interaction for situated interpretation of roles, purposes, expectations, and sequences of action, thus show significant conceptual relevance to the analysis of routinized institutional communication. Having established a working definition of framing based on an intensive review of previous research, this study investigates university students’ and tutors’ framing behaviors in interactive small group talk. Two types of framing-in-interaction, -alternate framing of a single situation and co-framing within/beyond speaker role boundary-, are identified, examined, and characterized from a conversation-analytic perspective. The findings suggest that alternate framings co-occur with traceable interactional devices for sequential organization when the single situation at talk takes on divergent meaning potentials to be accessed. Co-framings happen when at least one (group) of participants is highly goal-oriented, showing conditional relevance to the prior courses of action and more explicit negotiation of epistemic stances. Framing, therefore, can be arguably taken as a global organization resource to characterize contextualization in institutional communication.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Framing in interactive academic talk

Pan

2021

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“…Examining the discourse of post-apartheid South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, Tovares (2016) shows that the testifiers and the TRC commissioners stray from the script associated with the knowledge schema of how a hearing unfolds in order to reframe the hearing as a social situation, thereby adjusting both the relationships between the participants in terms of power and solidarity and understandings of the truth of what happened during apartheid. This suggests that schemas regarding how particular contexts wherein changes in the social world are accomplished – not only hearings, but also political speeches, rallies, activists’ social media posts, and so on – can be diverged from in ways that adjust the definition of the unfolding situation frame moment-to-moment, amplifying previously silenced voices and offering new possibilities for understanding.…”

Section: Interactional Sociolinguistics and Social Movement Researchmentioning

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Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics

Gordon

Tannen

2023

Discourse Studies

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This essay provides an overview of the study of framing in discourse as conducated in the field of interactional sociolinguistics. We review key theorizing on frames and related concepts such as footing, positioning, and speech activity that provides the foundation for this research. We note two basic understandings of frame in our field: interactive frames relate to situational definitions of what is going on in an interaction; knowledge schemas account for participants’ expectations regarding people, objects, and so on. We give examples of how interactional sociolinguists have applied framing to illuminate moment-by-moment constructions of meanings, identities, and relationships across a range of contexts, as well as the role of knowledge and memory in these processes. With examples from studies of cross-cultural communication, everyday conversations among family and friends, and interaction in medical and digital discourse contexts, we emphasize how frames are transformed and laminated (or layered). While social movements have not been a central focus of interactional sociolinguistics research, we note that concern for social justice has been of foundational concern from the inception of this field, and note a number of studies that have demonstrated how micro-level moments of social activism and change are discursively constructed. These studies attest to the relevance of interactional sociolinguistic analysis of framing to researchers interested in social movements.

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Argumentation in Nigerian investigative public hearings

Unuabonah

2020

JAIC

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This paper examines defendants’ argumentative discourse in the 2008 Nigerian investigative public hearings on the Federal Capital Territory administration. The data, which consist of nine defendants’ presentations, are analyzed qualitatively, using a combination of the pragma-dialectical and extended pragma-dialectical theories of argumentation. The findings show that the hearing panel initially starts of as the institutional protagonist and defendants as the antagonists, and but later serve as the institutional antagonist and protagonists, respectively. The defendants tend to use analogy and causal argumentation schemes while employing subordinative and complementary coordinative argumentation structures. The defendants also employ different strategic maneuvers at different argumentative stages of the critical discussion. Due to the politico-forensic communicative domain and information-seeking genre of the investigative public hearing discourse, the concluding stage is suspended. Thus, the study shows the influence of communicative activity type on the argumentative activities in a critical discussion.

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Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings

Cited by 5 publications

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Framing in interactive academic talk

Framing in interactive academic talk

Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics

Argumentation in Nigerian investigative public hearings

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