Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1826759
Jeffrey D. Robinson
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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Pub Date : 2020-08-14DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1785768
Merran Toerien, C. Jackson, M. Reuber
ABSTRACT How does ordering a test fit into “new problem” medical consultations? Responding to calls for studies of the overall structural organization of consultations beyond primary care, this article depicts the organization of new problem consultations observed in two large neuroscience centers in the UK. This shows that—in addition to Robinson’s widely cited four main activities (establishing the reason for the visit, gathering information, delivering a diagnosis, recommending treatment)—test ordering is oriented to as an additional, normative activity. We show this numerically (tests were ordered in over 60% of our 65 new problem consultations) and by analyzing how participants orient to the activity of test ordering even when neurologists decide against testing. We argue that test ordering is a distinct activity, which, despite being treatment-oriented, displaces treatment in the here and now. Test ordering is thus consequential for progressivity, serving as both bridge and barrier to accomplishing the overarching medical project. Data are in British English.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1785775
E. Laurier, Daniel Muñoz, Rebekah Miller, Barry A. T. Brown
ABSTRACT Although the vehicle horn is a minimal audible unit for communication, we will show that its uses are impressively varied. Drawing upon a corpus of video recordings from dashcams, we show how drivers use the horn for creating awareness; how they target particular vehicles; and how they use it for warnings, for complaints, and in instructing the seeing of an aspect of an ambiguous traffic object. Drivers’ use of the horn involves, first, their sounding it in recognizable relations to past, current, and projected configurations of traffic on the road. Second, it involves drivers manipulating the vehicle horn to create sounds of shorter and longer durations that can then produce hearably distinct actions. Third, and finally, the driver can use the horn as an initiating or responsive action in relation to the actions of other members of traffic. The data are from road users in Chennai, India.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1786970
Xiaoting Li
ABSTRACT This study examines the uses of interpersonal touch in everyday interaction. An examination of everyday interactions among adult Mandarin Chinese speakers shows that sustained touch recurs in conversational jokings in two interactional and sequential environments: sequentially disaligned jokings (i.e., jokings that disrupt the speaker’s ongoing turn- and activity-in-progress) and jokings after extended disagreement. Sustained touch seems to perform several functions in the two environments. In sequentially disaligned jokings, the initiation of touch displays the speaker’s orientation to the concurrent talk as disaligned with the projected talk- and activity-in-progress. Sustained touch secures the recipient’s continuous participation in the sequentially disaligned jokings and requests the recipient’s appreciation of the jokings. After extended disagreement, sustained touch displays intimacy and invites the recipient into intimate interaction with the speaker. In both environments, sustained touch seems to delimit the boundaries of a joking. The data are in Mandarin Chinese with English translation.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1786977
Rasmus Persson
ABSTRACT This article examines three practices in responses to polar questions in French: prefacing a polar response token (e.g., oui [“yes”] or non [“no”]) with the particle ah (e.g., ah oui), prefacing with the particle ben (e.g., ben oui), and producing more than one token (e.g., oui=oui). The analysis suggests that such responses serve to take issue with the question; specifically, respondents display the answer to be obvious or redundant, challenge the questioner’s unknowing stance, or disalign with the further action implications of the question while still providing a polar answer. Comparisons are made with other practices for exerting agency in responses and with resources described for other languages. The resources available in French help participants differentiate in which way the respondent takes issue with the question, notwithstanding significant local particularization by reference to the specific question and its context. Data are in French, with English translation.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1785770
R. Sikveland, E. Stokoe
ABSTRACT This article explores whether and how word selection makes some proposals easier to resist than others. Fourteen cases (31 hours) of UK-based police crisis negotiation were analyzed exploring (a) how negotiators use the verbs talk or speak when proposing “dialogue,” and (b) to what extent the strength of resistance of persons in crisis toward the proposals may be attributed to this word selection. We found that persons in crisis were more likely to overtly reject proposals formulated with talk compared to speak. And while negotiators used both talk/speak when proposing dialogue, negotiators and persons in crisis associated talk with more evaluative stances toward dialogue compared to speak. This article has implications for the study of word selection in interaction and for crisis negotiation and other professions where “talk” is promoted as the solution. Data in British English.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1739428
Aug Nishizaka
ABSTRACT Drawing on an analysis of Japanese calligraphy (shodô) lessons where a master reviews his students’ works, I explore the organization of sequences in which the master proposes the correction or improvement of how they draw Japanese or Chinese characters. In such cases, the master faces two organizational issues: (a) how to organize his seeing of a drawn character in an adequately convincing manner, under the aspect of the drawing action that caused its appearance; and (b) how to organize the instruction sequences in a pedagogically adequate manner, by beginning with an explicit indication of the problem regarding the appearance of the character. I argue that the eventually accomplished sequences are the result of the simultaneous solution of these two issues. In conclusion, I reflect on some implications for further investigations of multimodal perception in distinct activities. Data are in Japanese with English translations.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1739398
Jeffrey D. Robinson
ABSTRACT Quantitative studies applying conversation analysis to the study of the timing of answers to sequence-initiating actions expose anomalies in terms of what is known about preference organization. After briefly describing preference organization, anomalies in answer-timing research, and one explanation for such anomalies, this article presents one qualitative and one quantitative study of responses to one thickly contextualized action: positively formatted polar interrogatives implementing information seeking with a relatively ‘unknowing’ stance. Data include 249 questions gathered from videotapes of unstructured conversations. Qualitative results suggest that, rather than two basic answer types (i.e., affirmation/disaffirmation), there may be three: unconditional affirmation, unconditional disaffirmation, and conditional. Quantitative analyses of time to answer, eyeball shifting, and pre-beginning behavior suggest that unconditional disaffirmation may not be dispreferred relative to unconditional affirmation. Instead, conditional answers may be dispreferred. Results begin to reconcile anomalies and expand our current understanding of preference organization. Data are in American English.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1739432
Bogdana Humă, E. Stokoe
ABSTRACT This article examines business-to-business “cold” calls between salespeople and prospective clients. Drawing on 150 audio-recorded interactions, we use conversation analysis to identify the overarching structural organization and constituent activities in first-time and subsequent “cold” calls, a distinction that emerged from participants’ orientation to their relationship history or lack thereof. The article reveals how structural features of telephone conversations, such as identification sequences and “reason for calling,” are adapted to achieve local interactional results and that these conversational microstructures are consequential for the outcome of the telephone call and, ultimately, a company’s bottom line. Data are British English.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1739422
Uwe-A. Küttner
ABSTRACT This article explores a sequence organizational phenomenon that results from the use of a loosely specifiable turn format (viz., That’s + wh-clause) for launching (next) sequences while at the same time connecting back to a prior turn. Using this practice creates a sequential juncture, i.e., a pivot-like nexus between one sequence and a next. In third position, such junctures serve to accomplish seamless sequential transitions from one sequence into a next by presenting the latter as locally occasioned. The practice may, however, also be deployed in second position to launch actions that have not been made relevant or provided for by the preceding action and exhibit response relevance themselves. The sequential junctures then become retro-sequential in character: They transform the projected trajectory of the sequence in progress and create interlocking sequential structures. These findings highlight that sequence is practice, while pointing to understudied interconnections between tying and sequentiality. Data are in English.
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