The role of language in interpersonal pragmatics

O’Driscoll, Jim

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.09.008

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“…In this social encounter, it is important to comprehend firstly the physical realities surrounding the presidential debate as it is seen in the recording, thus the participants could act properly based on the situation's expectancy and requirements [32]. These realities determine the impact on the demeanour of the participants on the encounter and asymmetrical power among them.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Footing in Presidential Debate of Indonesian Election

Amrullah¹

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of First International Conference on Culture, Education, Linguistics and Literature, CELL 2019,

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This paper attempts to explore further the unusual action in the first-round presidential debate of Indonesian election encounter by applying Goffman's interactional approach. It governs the notion of frame and footing. This viewpoint shows that, albeit there is politically a power asymmetry between the two candidates, they create an interactive symmetry in which one of them is de-ratified by spontaneous action. Speaking interaction between the moderator and the two candidates signifies two essential facts: power asymmetry in terms of conversation arrangement and interactive asymmetry in terms of turn taking scheme. The two candidates shift their footing as the moderator of the presidential debate allows them to do so. The Goffmanian perspective also shows the effect of public situational debate in this encounter.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Footing in Presidential Debate of Indonesian Election

Amrullah¹

2019

Proceedings of the Proceedings of First International Conference on Culture, Education, Linguistics and Literature, CELL 2019,

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“…10 8 We may recognize this behaviour as the enactment of a profane status if we consider that these minimal responses would be unacceptable -and assessed as 'uncommunicative', 'unhelpful', even 'rude' -in any activity type other than one such as this, whose social constitution is such that not even the barest nod to the interpersonal is expected. 9 This musical-score transcription format is taken from the HIAT notation system (see Ehlich 1993) and has been used by several scholars of spoken interaction (e.g., Watts 2003, Bousfield 2008, O'Driscoll 2013. By representing time as spatial left-to-right movement across the page, it can indicate time-relationships between one person's contributions and another's fairly accurately without recourse to the proliferation of symbols found in other transcription systems.…”

Section: The Dance Of Footings: Indices Of a Different Framementioning

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Dances with footings: a Goffmanian perspective on the Soto case

O’Driscoll

2018

Journal of Politeness Research

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This paper attempts to explain the trajectory and unusual outcome of this courtroom encounter by applying Erving Goffman's approach to interaction. It employs his notions of frame and footing, plus those of face, ritual deference and demeanour when they are useful. This perspective shows that, as well as the socially constituted power asymmetry, the participants create an interactive asymmetry in which the accused, Penelope Soto, although a canonically ratified participant, is sometimes effectively 'de-ratified'. However, as the encounter progresses, Soto and the judge shift their footings back and forth such that into the court-hearing frame, another frame, that of the social encounter, is insinuated. This clash of frames is shown to be a major cause of the trajectory taken by the encounter. The Goffmanian perspective also points up the effect of the use of a video link for this encounter. This application of Goffman's framework functions as a test of some of his concepts and the paper concludes with some comments and suggested elaborations.

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“…Our study explores interpersonal functions of stancetaking acts in English as a lingua franca (ELF) discourse in academic settings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach in understanding stance in ELF discourse, we broadly draw on interpersonal and sociolinguistic perspectives in our analysis of stance in real spoken academic interactions (Jaffe, 2009;O'Driscoll, 2013). Relying on one of the highly frequent stance markers by the native speakers of English (Baumgarten & House, 2010), we operationalize the act of stancetaking in ELF discourse in academic settings through the use of I don't know in this study.…”

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Stancetaking in spoken ELF discourse in academic settings: interpersonal functions of I don’t know as a face-maintaining strategy

Çiftçi¹,

Akbaş²

2021

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics

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Our study examines interpersonal functions enacted through a stance marker in spoken ELF academic discourse. We specifically focus on investigating the functions of I don't know in an academic speech event by embracing an interpersonal pragmatics and sociolinguistics perspective to figure out how it contributes to the act of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity. We have examined 14 interactions of doctoral defense discussions from the ELFA corpus. Our detailed discourse analysis of these doctoral defense discussions has revealed five distinctive interpersonal functions of the stance marker I don't know allowing speakers to construct their stance and adopt a face-maintaining strategy in the ongoing spoken discourse: prefacing a suggestion, seeking acceptance, hedging/mitigating, checking agreement, and expressing uncertainty. Considering the highly-context dependent and context-regenerated functions of I don't know, our study attempts to delve into the relational and interpersonal aspect of communication, and thus contributes to research in this strand by disclosing the interpersonal functions of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity with a particular focus on ELF academic discourse.

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The role of language in interpersonal pragmatics

Cited by 19 publications

References 17 publications

Footing in Presidential Debate of Indonesian Election

Footing in Presidential Debate of Indonesian Election

Dances with footings: a Goffmanian perspective on the Soto case

Stancetaking in spoken ELF discourse in academic settings: interpersonal functions of I don’t know as a face-maintaining strategy

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