Rendering the untellable, tellable

IF 0.9 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2020-05-19 DOI:10.1075/ni.18055.tho
M’Balia Thomas
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Abstract Goffman’s concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a single-teller narrative which evolves into a 13-minute conversational story about the relationship troubles of an absent third party. Analyzed for the verbal and nonverbal disruptions and subsequent adjustments and remedial actions manifested by participants, Conversation Analysis (CA) is employed to capture how threats to face surface and how they are recognized, cooperatively managed, and made tellable. Through the analysis, this paper addresses the perceived incommensurability between CA and Goffman’s notion of face, demonstrating the ways in which face is (1) a doing a doing, a situated presentation of self that serves narrative-advancing functions and renders talk tellable as threats to face arise and (2) an achievement comprised of moves that are tacitly cooperative, ambiguously cooperative, or uncooperatively cooperative.
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Goffman关于面对面和面对面工作的概念,以及他关于面对面互动中的谈话是合作的断言,都没有被充分理论化,而且经常受到批评。为了扩展这些概念,我们从一个单独的叙述中分析了一些片段,这些叙述演变成一个13分钟的对话故事,讲述了一个缺席的第三方的关系问题。为了分析参与者表现出的言语和非言语干扰以及随后的调整和补救行动,对话分析(CA)被用来捕捉威胁是如何浮出水面的,以及它们是如何被识别、合作管理和讲述的。通过分析,本文解决了CA和Goffman的面子概念之间的感知不可通约性,展示了面子是(1)一种做一种做,一种自我的定位呈现,它服务于叙事推进功能,并在面对威胁时使谈话变得可讲;(2)一种由默契合作、模糊合作或不合作的动作组成的成就。
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Narrative Inquiry
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期刊介绍: Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.
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