One Type of Polar, Information-Seeking Question and Its Stance of Probability: Implications for the Preference for Agreement

IF 3 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Research on Language and Social Interaction Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/08351813.2020.1826759
Jeffrey D. Robinson
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ABSTRACT There is little doubt that Sacks’s notion of the “preference for agreement” is generally valid. However, that it is valid does not tell us how it is valid. This article further unpacks the preference for agreement by conversation-analytically grounding one of its many underlying mechanisms. Specifically, this article examines the practice of formatting an action—in this case, a type of information seeking—as a positively formatted polar interrogative without polarity items (e.g., Did you go fishing?). This article demonstrates that doing so enacts a speaker stance that the question’s proposed state of affairs (e.g., that the recipient went fishing) is probable and thus that a response is more likely to constitute affirmation than disaffirmation. Additionally, this article describes the preference-organizational effects of such formatting on some aspects of response construction. Data are gathered from videotapes of unstructured, face-to-face conversations, included 289 interrogatives, and are in American English.
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一类极性信息寻求问题及其概率立场——对协议偏好的启示
摘要毫无疑问,萨克斯的“协议优先权”概念是普遍有效的。然而,它是有效的并不能告诉我们它是如何有效的。这篇文章通过对话分析其众多潜在机制之一,进一步揭示了对协议的偏好。具体来说,这篇文章研究了将一个动作(在这种情况下,是一种信息寻求)格式化为没有极性项目的正格式极性疑问句的做法(例如,你去钓鱼了吗?)。这篇文章表明,这样做表明了发言人的立场,即问题的拟议事态(例如,接受者去钓鱼)是可能的,因此回答更有可能构成肯定而非否定。此外,本文还描述了这种格式对响应构建的某些方面的偏好组织影响。数据是从非结构化面对面对话的录像带中收集的,包括289个问句,都是美式英语。
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