On the Pragmatics of Interjections in Parliamentary Interruptions

Truan, Naomi

doi:10.4000/rsp.323

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“…For purposes of analysis, interruptions are considered tonal because they also function as a paralinguistic cue and their success does not depend on fully articulating a point or understanding the substance of the words spoken. As Truan (2016) observes, interruptions “combine brevity and noticeability” (p. 127). In conversations or other rhetorical situations that require turn-taking, interruptions can either be benign and affiliative, or hostile and disaffiliative (Antaki, 2012).…”

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Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response

Bucy

Foley²,

Lukito³

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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Populism, as many have observed, is a communication phenomenon as much as a coherent ideology whose mass appeal stems from the fiery articulation of core positions, notably hostility toward “others,” bias against elites in favor of “the people,” and the transgressive delivery of those messages. Yet much of what we know about populist communication is based on analysis of candidate pronouncements, the verbal message conveyed at political events and over social media, rather than transgressive performances—the visual and tonal markers of outrage—that give populism its distinctive flair. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by using detailed verbal, tonal, and nonverbal coding of the first US presidential debate of 2016 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to show how Trump’s transgressive style—his violation of normative boundaries, particularly those related to protocol and politeness, and open displays of frustration and anger—can be operationalized from a communication standpoint and used in statistical modeling to predict the volume of Twitter response to both candidates during the debate. Our findings support the view that Trump’s norm-violating transgressive style, a type of political performance, resonated with viewers significantly more than Clinton’s more controlled approach and garnered Trump substantial second-screen attention.

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Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response

Bucy

Foley²,

Lukito³

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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“…Interruption is closely related to the notion of power because only powerful participants are able to constrain the contributions of the powerless. These constraints are preconditioned by finding appropriate access to discourse (Truan, 2016). Furthermore, Fairclough (2014) argues that interruption may occur directly (e.g., by cutting the participant's speech) or indirectly (by selecting the discourse type).…”

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The Pragmatics of Persuasion in Fictional Communication

Khafaga,

Bosli,

Al-Anazi

2023

WJEL

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By drawing on a pragmatic approach manifested in five pragmatic concepts: directive speech acts, rhetorical questions, back-channel support, gap-bridging, and interruption, this paper attempts to explore the pragmatic weight of the five pragmatic concepts as conduits of persuasion and/or manipulation at the intradiegetic level of fictional communication represented by Orwell’s Animal Farm. The main objective of the paper, therefore, is to provide a linguistic analysis of the pragmatic strategies effecting persuasiveness in Orwell’s novel. One overarching research question is addressed here: to what extent are the five pragmatic concepts employed as strategies of persuasion and/or manipulation in the selected data? The paper reveals three main findings: first, the five pragmatic strategies under investigation contribute effectively to the production of three types of persuasion at the character-to-character level of discourse: pure, manipulative, and coercive persuasion. Second, the five strategies at hand are manifested in various linguistic forms, including imperatives, interrogatives, lexicalization, and slogans. Third, despite the fact that the pragmatic approach is much more pertinent to the conversational genre, it is linguistically evidenced in this paper that the same approach proves analytically relevant to the study of narrative texts, which further accentuates the crucial role of fictional discourse as a source of data in the advancement of linguistic models and analytical frameworks.

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Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates

Isosävi,

Baldauf-Quilliatre,

Gagne

et al. 2024

JLP

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This paper analyses unauthorised turns – namely, interruptions – in parliamentary debates, by focusing on their lesser-studied interactional characteristics, that is, reactions. Drawing upon cross-cultural pragmatics, we compare reactions in Finnish (Eduskunta of Finland), French (Assemblée nationale of France) and German (Bundestag of Germany) parliamentary debates. In doing so, we applied conversation analysis in the sequential analysis of reactions to interruptions while considering restrictions related to written transcriptions. While most interruptions passed without reaction in all three languages, the reactions came from different sources: from unauthorised speakers in French, from authorised speakers in German and from both in Finnish. Our study demonstrates that interruptions serve as resources for micro-interactions within official speaking turns in parliamentary debates, revealing cross-cultural differences in speech styles.

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On the Pragmatics of Interjections in Parliamentary Interruptions

Abstract: The corpus and its detailed documentation are freely available online: hdl.handle. net/11403/de-parl.

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response

Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response

The Pragmatics of Persuasion in Fictional Communication

Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates

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