Using Conversation Analysis in Feminist and Critical Research

Wilkinson, Susan; Kitzinger, Celia

doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00049.x

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“…Our results suggest that this kind of pattern may be no problem for the interaction experiences of males. However, in line with other research, which has pointed to the less rigid turn-taking rules in all-female groups [14,84], our results suggest that a too tight moment-by-moment dominance coordination could be a problem for females. In other words, our results suggest that there could be important gender differences as to what the positive, solidarity-promoting interactional style described in the literature [71,73] actually consist of.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…However, there are also authors pointing to differences in men's and women's overall communication styles, which become apparent also when comparing female and male interactions in same-gender dyads [2]. Thus, for example, the form of overlap referred to as "supporting interrupting" [84] has been found to be particularly common in allfemale groups [14].…”

Section: Gender and Interpersonal Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

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Affiliation and Dominance in Female and Male Dyads: When Discoordination Makes Happy

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Drawing on sixteen 45-min-long dyadic same-sex conversations between unacquainted females or males, we used the joystick method by Sadler et al. (J Pers Soc Psychol 97:1005-1020. https ://doi.org/10.1037/a0016 232, 2009) to rate the moment-to-moment levels of affiliation and dominance during the first and last 10 min of these conversations. Besides comparing the behavioral patterns in female and male dyads, we drew on the pre-and post-conversation questionnaires filled by the participants of the rated conversations to study the experiential consequences (valence, arousal, happiness, anxiety) of these patterns. Both genders exhibited the same complementary patterns where affiliation pulls for affiliation and dominance for submissiveness. However, these patterns were experienced differently by females and males. Greater affiliation synchrony increased the levels of happiness and arousal for males, but not for females. In addition, greater dominance coordination predicted a more negative valence change for females than for males. The paper thus points to gender differences in what constitutes a positive interactional experience and suggests a need to revisit social scientific theorizing in this regard.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Gender and Interpersonal Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Affiliation and Dominance in Female and Male Dyads: When Discoordination Makes Happy

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“…Broadly, a close discursive analysis of membership categories has been shown to be useful in the analysis of relationship construction, which entails a focus on the ways speakers conduct interaction and build relationships as members of particular relational categories, such as 'friend', 'mother', or for the present study, 'potential romantic partner' (see Mandelbaum, 2003;Pomerantz and Mandelbaum, 2005;Wilkinson and Kitzinger, 2008). Categories index (and are indexed by) culturally defined sets of category-bound activities, rights, obligations, and predicates that are expected for members of that category.…”

Section: A Discursive Analysis Of Gender Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Gendering desire in speed-dating interactions

Korobov

2011

Discourse Studies

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This study examines how potential romantic partners in speed-dating encounters use gender to both proffer and formulate mate-preferences as a means of establishing affiliation. Drawing on a corpus of 36 speed-dating interactions, a sequential discursive psychological approach was used to analyze how gendered mate-preferences were initially elicited and formulated, as well as the interactional effects of mate-preferences that were designed to appear complicit versus resistant to gender conventionality. The findings reveal that both mate-preference solicitations and formulations were categorically gendered and were treated as incipient or expected, suggesting that gendering mate-preferences is a normative action in first encounters by potential romantic partners. Further, mate-preferences that were marked as conventional rarely promoted an environment of mutual affiliation, whereas mate-preferences that were formulated as resistant to gender-conventionality did tend to function as a preliminary for affective affiliation. The study reveals that the gendering of mate-preferences is a responsive social practice with an interactional design that has relational consequences for the ways potential romantic partners create connection.

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“…Moreover, it also assists in describing the procedure, which allows conversing in a meaningful and orderly manner (Speer & Stokoe, 2011). The multidisciplinary nature of CA enables its use across different disciplines; such as psychology, sociology, linguistics, and communication studies (Wilkinson & Kitzinger, 2008).…”

Section: Study Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying Elements of Gender References, Persuasive Techniques and Social Interaction Associated with Political Discourse: The Case of Hillary Clinton

AlQahtani¹

2019

IJEL

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Discourse is an important tool discussing social relations in the discursive patterns. A well-designed discourse can easily dominate people and can construct their perceptions. Therefore, discourse is critical in the political world when one uses it to communicate ideas and visions to the people. Therefore, the present study aims to identify the elements of gender references, persuasive techniques, and social interactions associated with political discourse of Hillary Clinton. The study has used the framework of conversation analysis for studying a total of three interviews and five debates of Hillary Clinton. The interviews and recording were extracted from YouTube and then transcribed and interpreted by converting them into text. The findings have revealed a significant use of persuasive techniques and social interaction in Clinton’s political discourse. The results also imply that using affiliation strategy, candidates can manipulate people. The study concludes that this strategy is more effective in representing oneself as truthful as compared to conventional narratives.

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Using Conversation Analysis in Feminist and Critical Research

Cited by 26 publications

References 82 publications

Affiliation and Dominance in Female and Male Dyads: When Discoordination Makes Happy

Affiliation and Dominance in Female and Male Dyads: When Discoordination Makes Happy

Gendering desire in speed-dating interactions

Identifying Elements of Gender References, Persuasive Techniques and Social Interaction Associated with Political Discourse: The Case of Hillary Clinton

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