Taking a stance on emotion: affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction

Bois, John W. Du; Kärkkäinen, Elise

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“…(M. H. Goodwin, Cekaite, & Goodwin, 2012). In other words, the object of evaluation (object of stance) is what a person expresses an overt emotional reaction to, or displays an affective orientation toward (Du Bois & Kärkkäinen, 2012). Furthermore, in the context of social interaction, affect displays do not only express emotion but also invite the recipient to recognize the emotion and empathize with it (Preston & De Waal, 2002).…”

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Aphasia Sufferers’ Displays of Affect in Conversation

Laakso

2014

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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How do people with aphasia express their emotions? This article uses a sample of video-recorded speech and language therapy sessions to see how patients make use of facial, vocal, and bodily expression. Analysis shows that their affect displays regularly co-occur with linguistic difficulties and efforts to repair them. The most common affect displays consist of frowning, laughing, smiling, and shifts in gaze or body posture. If the difficulties are prolonged, affect displays are intensified with lowered/raised voice quality, sighing, head shaking, and verbal exclamations. Both frowning and laughter display recognition of linguistic difficulties, thus turning the threatening display of linguistic incompetence into a display of competence and active management of the trouble. The therapists are neutral in displaying affect but reciprocate smiles and laughter. The way that patient and therapist manage their displays of affect are part of their management of their larger social identities. Data are in Finnish with English translation.

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Aphasia Sufferers’ Displays of Affect in Conversation

Laakso

2014

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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“…interaction. Yet, other research, including the work ofNir and her colleagues (2014),Du Bois and Kärkkäinen (2012), andHaddington (2006) all have suggested similar conclusions: Dialogic Syntax and CA can and should go hand in hand when analyzing interactions.A similar shortcoming is the "uniqueness" of the interaction. The interaction revolves around misalignment.…”

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Creative resonance and misalignment stance

Dori-Hacohen

2017

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This paper elaborates on one element of the theory of Dialogic Syntax, Du Bois's main tool for stance-taking, namely creative resonance. The examples are taken from a recording of a car ride which was part of data collected for the analysis of Hebrew. The focus in the analysis is on misalignment, when participants use stance acts to distance themselves from each other. The main claim of this paper is that whenever a stance act takes place, the relations between the participants are at stake. I show how creative, and to a lesser extent pre-existing, resonance can be used for creating and enhancing distance in misalignment. The discussion connects resonance and Dialogic Syntax with other frameworks for the study of language and interactions.Stance has always been a topic of interest to linguists and sociolinguists. Yet, whereas until the end of the 20 th century stance was mainly studied in written texts, lately stance has been studied as an element, even a central one, of verbal interactions. Conversation Analysis (henceforth CA) has identified stance as a new area for research (e.g. Heritage & Raymond 2005) and suggested it is significant in action formation (in the conversation-analytic sense of how interlocutors construct their paired utterances in order to make sure that the 'main job' of the turn is being performed and recognized, and how these utterances are constrained by the expectations projected by other adjacent utterances; Stivers 2013). Elsewhere, Du Bois (e.g. 2007) has developed a dialogical view of stance. In his view, stance is carried out through the use of Dialogic Syntax, the processes and practices which create intimate and systematic grammatical relations between one utterance and the next. Here, I expand on one aspect of his work, namely the different types of resonance which function to generate formal engagement (Du Bois 2014).Du Bois suggests two types of resonance, one defined as pre-existing resonance and the other, the focus of this paper, as creative resonance. I illustrate these notions, mainly creative resonance but also pre-existing resonance, in one interaction and demonstrate how they can be used to create divergent alignment (or misalignment) between the participants. Following these illustrations, I will suggest how resonance, with its two types, and Dialogic Syntax may relate to other frameworks of language and interaction. Stance, dialogic resonance, and its structural relationsAdjacency Pairs, Dialogic Syntax, and Misalignment in interaction 3 Du Bois discusses stance acts, the idea that utterances create stance, and focuses on inserting dialogicality into the discussion of stance (often discussed monologically, as in news articles or speeches). He defines stance as follows:Stance is a public act by a social actor, achieved dialogically through overt communicative means, of simultaneously evaluating objects, positioning subjects (self and others), and aligning with other subjects, with respect to any salient dimension of the sociocultural field. (Du Bois 2007: 149) This d...

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“…Such expressions of accumulation and quantity create powerful hyperboles (McCarthy and Carter ), highlighting Miles's differentiating statement. His knowledge claims (evaluations, exemplification) are augmented affectively through additional stress, illustrating the interplay of epistemicity and affect in stance acts (Du Bois and Kärkkäinen ). .Further emphasis is achieved when Miles contrasts lavish Polish (and Spanish) hospitality with a modest approach (15) in Britain.…”

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Oh God, that's an ugly looking fish – negotiating sociocultural distance in transnational families through culinary othering

Wilczek‐Watson

2018

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper presents a qualitative discourse analysis of food‐related interactions in four U.K.‐based Polish–British families. The data include the families’ video‐recorded celebratory meals and audio‐recorded interviews. The analysis explores how food talk projects ‘stance’ (Du Bois ) – that is, how it indexes the speakers’ positioning towards their sociocultural field, thus shaping their identities. The data reveal that, as the speakers negotiate their stances in the culinary context, they recurrently ‘other’ their interlocutors’ foodscapes – represent them as different, abnormal and/or inferior. This othering could be interpreted as distancing from other speakers. However, the analysis shows that by humorously highlighting differences between their culinaro‐celebratory repertoires, the family members also reaffirm their sharedness. The speakers’ discursive collaboration during their difference talk demonstrates how othering can be unifying in these transnational families, the potential of which is understudied in face‐to‐face interactions and in the context of food.

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Taking a stance on emotion: affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction

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