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Authors: Manfred Kienpointner
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This special issue represents some of the recent developments within argumentation studies. The following overview provides some historical context for the five papers which constitute this special issue. The Aristotelian roots of modern argumentation studies are briefly presented, as well as some further developments within Greek and Roman rhetoric. Furthermore, the most important developments in argumentation studies during the last few decades are sketched. Several modern approaches to argumentation theory are introduced, among them Perelman/Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric, Toulmin’s model of argumentation, formal dialectics, fallacy theory, informal logic, the Argumentum Model and Pragma-Dialectics. Finally, the thematic focus of the five papers is described.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-25T04:41:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231163419
- A functional diversity of argumentative styles
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Authors: Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
In dealing with the different ways in which argumentative styles manifest themselves in various communicative practices from several communicative domains, van Eemeren and Garssen start from a definition of argumentative style that is connected with the pragma-dialectical notion of strategic maneuvering. Depending on the argumentative moves that are made, the dialectical routes that are followed, and the strategic considerations that are brought to bear, they make a general distinction between detached and engaged argumentative styles. In this article, they report on recent research in which it is examined to what extent the argumentative styles that are prototypically used in different institutional macro-contexts from the political, the diplomatic, the juridical, the faciliatory, the academic and the medical domain belong to these two categories. In the analyses they discuss, the authors combine specialized and domain-specific background knowledge with pragma-dialectical insight into the properties of argumentative discourse that determine the argumentative style.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-25T04:40:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231163096
- Neither speaker nor recipient: The middle-distance look of unaddressed
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Authors: Einav Argaman
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article studies the middle-distance look of ratified unaddressed participants and the way in which it is sequentially organized in relation to the discursive conducts of current speaker. An analysis of naturally occurring video recorded discourse reveals that ratified unaddressed participants constitute themselves as non-recipients by employing middle-distance look. The article formulates a list of observations (missing in the literature) regarding the middle-distance look of ratified unaddressed participants. It raises questions which may generate knowledge on (a) the connection between middle-distance look and discursive ambiguity, (b) types of middle-distance look, (c) middle distance look as related to seating arrangements and group size.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-25T04:37:43Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231157074
- Argumentative strategies to evade state apologies: The Turkish example
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Authors: Yeliz Demir, Juliette Schaafsma
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Countries are often reluctant to publicly recognize and express regret for past wrongdoings despite urgent pressures or calls to do so, and in the past decades there have been numerous examples of states that have issued statements that evade an admission of wrongdoing or apology. Evading an apology requires politicians in authority to make argumentative maneuvers to steer the discourse to their own advantage. But what do such maneuvers look like' This paper sets out to address this question by drawing on a Turkish example and by analyzing President Erdoğan’s message of condolences addressed to the Armenian community in 2014, when he was the Prime Minister of Turkey. We utilized the pragma-dialectical notion of ‘strategic maneuvering’ in uncovering how he exploited the topical potential, addressed the audience expectations, and chose from available presentational means to defend the standpoint that ‘Turkey should not be blamed for the events of 1915’. Our analysis suggests that even when political authorities evade an apology, they may still try to observe dialectically reasonable and rhetorically effective argumentation. The message we analyzed shows how this can be done by pairing evasive language about past atrocities with expressions of empathy with the victims and by highlighting the importance of dialogue, mutual tolerance, and compromise in establishing a common future.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-24T01:09:43Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231163423
- Critical discourse studies eleven years on in China (from 2011 to 2021): A
critical review-
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Authors: Jiayu Wang, Guangyu Jin
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Since critical discourse analysis (CDA) was introduced to China in 1990s, it has developed into an influential and thriving field. This article reviews the development of CDA in China from 2011 to 2021, during which CDA had thrived to be a productive field in terms of the in-depth theoretical and methodological explorations and the overwhelming majority of empirical studies which considerably expanded its scope to a much wider range of discourses. It also came to involve a broader array of disciplines including corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, multimodality, translation studies, and eco-linguistics. It can be found that while keeping pace with the international CDA studies, Chinese scholars consistently gear CDA to China’s social, political, and cultural contexts and strive to use CDA to deliberate on and solve social problems in contemporary Chinese society. This brief review endeavors to communicate with the international academia regarding the latest developments of CDA in China.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-24T01:08:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231158519
- What’s in a frame, what’s in a name'
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Authors: Hank Johnston
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This report reviews the development and organization of social movement research, the place frame analysis in the field, and its weak relationship with cognitive-linguistic approaches to frames and scripts. It considers the differences between frames and ideologies – the latter being a key social movement concept. It then presents a practical methodology to chart the content of frame schemas, with an emphasis on fealty to the original documents and their fine-grained, linguistically informed analysis. Close attention to empirical texts, sampled at different points in time or in response to hinge events, ideally provide the empirical basis for inferences made about frame content and can be useful in comparatively tracing changes in strategic framing. Strategic framing is the marketing or ‘spin’ sense of the term, capturing the adjustment of messages or their presentation to increase acceptability and/or persuasiveness. The frequency of this phenomenon and a focus on strategy has disengaged framing from its original cognitive-linguistic grounding. It will likely remain that that way for reasons less concerned with rules of evidence and analytical logic and more about the pragmatics of publication and the discursive organization of academic fields.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-22T12:14:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154732
- Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of
TED talks and YouTube science videos-
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Authors: Edgar Bernad-Mechó, Julia Valeiras-Jurado
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
The growing interest on science dissemination offers new opportunities to communicate science openly to various audiences, but also brings on the challenge of adapting to an audience that does not share the same academic background. This adaptation has been referred to as recontextualization. In the case of the formats that concern this study, that is, TEDx Talks and YouTube science dissemination videos, their multimodal nature suggests that recontextualization, and therefore engagement as a crucial aspect of this process, is likely to go way beyond purely linguistic aspects. The aim of this study is to unveil how engagement strategies in two science dissemination formats (a face to face talk and an online video) are realized through complex multimodal ensembles, and to highlight differences across them. In order to fulfill this aim, two talks by the same presenter and dealing with similar content were selected for analysis: a TEDx talk and a YouTube science dissemination video from the channel PBS Space Time. The recordings were annotated using the software Multimodal Video Analysis. The annotation included engagement strategies; embodied modes, that is, modes carried out using the body; and, in the case of the YouTube video, filmic modes, that is, modes triggered by the editing process of the recorded video. Our results show that the role of both embodied and filmic modes is paramount in the realization of engagement strategies. Our findings also bring to the fore significant differences in the ways in which the two distinct audiences are engaged, concerning the frequency and use of both semiotic modes and engagement strategies.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-18T11:22:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231161755
- Rethinking frame analysis ‘from the margins’: A
decolonial-intersectional epistemology to studying immigrants’ rights
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Authors: Teresa M Cappiali
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
In this article, I explain how I use frame analysis in my research on immigrants’ rights claims in receiving society. My theoretical approach relies on two core aspects. First, I use a decolonial-intersectional epistemology to conceptualize my methodology and conduct my empirical research. This approach allows to bring into focus the analysis of ideology and power dynamics to understand how immigrants are constructed by different political actors and how immigrant activists respond. Second, I adopt an actor-oriented approach and combine ethnographic research with frame analysis to make sense of how pro-immigrant actors and immigrants themselves frame their approach to migration and the ways in which they translate their framing into specific strategies to integrate immigrants in society and promote their rights. As an example, I discuss how I have applied the theoretical approach to my research on immigrant activism in Italy. Beyond my work, this article emphasizes that a decolonial-intersectional approach can improve current research on frame analysis of rights claims of marginalized groups, by addressing how these groups expose and challenge structures of oppression in their own terms.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-14T08:58:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155087
- Category relations and norms of feelings in children’s performances of a
boyfriend-girlfriend culture-
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Authors: Fredrik Andréasson, Ann-Carita Evaldsson
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study explores how preteen children in everyday interaction mobilize relationship categories to negotiate what counts as appropriate romantic feelings among peers. The analysis draws on ethnomethodological work on membership categorization and conversation analysis, integrated with ethnographic knowledge of children’s social life. Particular attention is on how children make claims of and resist membership in a particular relationship category (that of boyfriend-girlfriend). The sequential analysis shows how category-based claims of ‘liking someone’ and ‘being together,’ indexing a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, are responded to with resistance and denials. Categorical claims are also turned into public performances of relational pairing invoking the normative character of romantic matchmaking. The findings suggest that norms of feelings play a central role in preteen children’s emotional behavior, and serve as important cultural resources for children to address their emergent concerns regarding peer group relationships.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T05:30:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231158510
- Asking for help without asking for help: How victims request and police
offer assistance in cases of domestic violence when perpetrators are
potentially co-present-
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Authors: Elizabeth Stokoe, Emma Richardson
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Requesting police assistance can be especially challenging in cases of domestic violence, since perpetrators may be able to overhear victims’ telephone calls. This means that callers may not be able to make direct requests for help. Simultaneously, a routine task for police call-takers is to categorize incoming calls as genuine rather than, say, accidental or nuisance. We collected and transcribed 192 audio-recorded calls to a UK police service, which included interactions between callers and call-takers as well as between national operators and local call-takers. The latter provided access to the professional parties’ pre-transfer discussion and interpretation of what kind of trouble might be occurring in silent and otherwise ambiguous calls. Using conversation analysis, we found that, as well as unambiguous requests for help (e.g. ‘I need you to come because of assault by my partner’), callers formulated apparently inapposite turns (‘hiya, you all right'’) and used non-lexical resources (e.g. breaths) to build actions which also mobilized assistance. Professional call-takers’ discussions included domestic violence-implicative interpretations (e.g. ‘I heard a woman shout’). Parties collaboratively leveraged the affordances of turn design and sequence to request and offer help without revealing to potentially overhearing parties that callers were talking to the police. Our findings have implications for understanding how actions like requesting are accomplished in social interaction, as well as for training call-takers to recognize and act on communicative ambiguities in cases of domestic violence. Data are in British English.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T05:28:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231157293
- ‘Pregnancy no bi disease’: Contextual beliefs in antenatal classes in
selected Nigerian hospitals-
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Authors: Ezekiel Opeyemi Olajimbiti
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines how language is used to show shared beliefs between caregivers and pregnant women in antenatal classes in the Nigerian context, which hitherto suffers neglect. The data consist of tape recordings and observational notes taken during antenatal classes in selected hospitals in Lokoja, Nigeria. The study adopted a top-down analytic approach using Odebunmi’s model of contextual beliefs, supported by van Dijk’s epistemic context model, and Fetzer and Fischer’s lexical markers model. The analysis shows three categories of shared knowledge: a. state of pregnancy and postnatal care b. sexual relationships and spice lexemes c. traditional child care and superstitions. Shared knowledge of the state of pregnancy and postnatal care manifests in pregnancy misconceptions, nutrition during pregnancy and postnatal care orientations highlighted by lexical markers such as recoverable knowledge connector and joint attention builder. Shared knowledge of sexual relations and spice lexemes reflect sexual communication and native spices using metaphorization and proximal deictic lexical markers. Grandmothers’ involvement and insistence on using traditional methods and superstitions frame shared knowledge of traditional child care and superstitions through belief affirmative and self-reformulation markers. Analysis of the shared beliefs shows how caregivers represent pregnant women’s mental knowledge in interactions as well as how pregnant women interject beliefs for clarification and validity. This way, both participants demonstrate how contextual beliefs facilitate communicative processes and meaningful understanding in their interactions.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T05:25:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231160239
- Constructing mediator identities through questioning in Chinese televised
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Authors: Xian Zhang, Yanbiao Dong
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study, integrating poststructuralist discourse analysis and conversation analysis, analyzes how the question-answer sequences construct mediators’ dynamic identities during Chinese televised mediation. The research shows that different mediators in the team tend to employ different types of questions at varying stages; that questions serve not only to elicit information but also to manage the multilateral talk, to make assertions, to persuade, and to construct different identities; that different mediators’ identities include the manager, the reality tester, the moral educator, the facilitator, and the entertainer. Instead of remaining neutral, they might step out of the neutralistic circle and adhere to the golden mean. The complex representation of these identities is deeply rooted in China’s cultural and socioeconomic background. This study provides a thorough understanding of the interplay between questioning and identity in institutional contexts and the mechanism of Chinese televised mediation.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T05:19:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221139202
- What’s really in a frame' The case of public marriage proposals
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Authors: Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Using a small corpus of marriage proposal stories authored by British citizens, this paper aims to identify and make explicit seven defining parameters of frames (namely, default elements, default scenario, default context, default inference, default form, default argument, and instantiations) and explain and exemplify each.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T05:11:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154720
- Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social
movement research-
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Authors: Teun A van Dijk
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This critical review of more than three decades of studies of frames and framing in Social Movement (SM) research first offers a brief history of the notion of ‘frame’ in various disciplines, and then discusses empirical studies of frame alignment, frame disputes, frame resonance and master frames, among other notions. It is found that the very notion of discursive of cognitive frames remains very vague in these studies, and what are actually studied are for instance, beliefs, attitudes, goals, ideologies or values, especially how they are expressed in discourse. Also studies of relations between frames and culture, identity and discourse show that the notions of frames and framing are theoretically and methodologically unsatisfactory in empirical studies. It is concluded that the methods of the cultural paradigm of SM research may take advantage of the advances of more explicit methods in the study of language, discourse, interaction and cognition.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-10T04:54:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155080
- Framing and social movements
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Authors: Manuela Caiani
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the notion and method of discourse and frame analysis in social movement studies. Different cases of frame analysis applied to various types of social movements and contentious politics in Europe are used to illustrate the argument. As stressed in the introduction to this special issue, although the concept of frame and framing is used in several disciplines and approaches in the cognitive, language and social sciences, research on social movements still presents some gaps. One is the prevalent application of frame analysis approach to progressive left wing movements, leaving aside actors on the Right. A second weakness is the scarcity of empirical research combining the micro (i.e. activists) and meso (i.e. organizations) level of framing and exploring dynamics of frame ‘(dis-)alignment’. Third, there is mainly a focus on the framing of national rather than transnational contention, although as this article shows, social movement research is increasing on this regard. The fourth weakness is the scarcity of applications of framing and frame analysis to collective actors and policies - a promising line of research to which social movement studies could make valuable contributions. This article will address these issues to highlight promising venues of research and application in social movement studies.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-08T12:35:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154734
- Where does the true value of a frame analysis approach lie' A Reply to
van Dijk-
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Authors: Tracey Skillington
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This paper addresses arguments raised by van Dijk in his critical appraisal of framing approaches to social movement research. In particular, the claim that frame analysis does not give sufficient attention to the intricate details of the interpretive process. In making this argument, van Dijk leans heavily on Goffman’s first category of frames (as individual acts of interpretation) at the expense of his second (relating more to inter-subjectively shared classes of schemata) used reflexively, for instance, by movements to embed a message of protest in wider value systems in the hope that it resonates sufficiently with the grounded experiences, grievances, beliefs, and cultural orientations of publics. This paper highlights how social movement frame research accounts for both categories of frames to illustrate how movements communicate across multiple levels of social interaction to maximize the societal impact of their message. When interpreted in these broader terms, the ‘how’ of interpretation, it will argue, is explained effectively by this research, contrary to van Dijk’s claim.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-08T12:33:32Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155088
- Sequence-initial pointing: Spotlighting what just happened as a cause of a
new sequence-
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Authors: Eiko Yasui
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on microanalysis of interaction, this study examines the practice a pointing gesture accomplishes in initiating a new sequence in relation to what just happened when another line of interaction is still developing. Specifically, it is an investigation of the cases in which a participant points at a current or adjacent prior speaker with their index finger, comments on their current or adjacent prior action, and laughs. Such pointing spotlights what the target is currently doing or just did and locates them as a cause of the laughter. The pointing participant then invites laughter from others by shifting their gaze toward others while continuing to point. The analysis shows that such practice presents new participation statuses of the recipients and enables the producer of the pointing to initiate a teasing sequence; the gaze shift can invite laughter from others while the pointing indicates the target of the teasing. The study thus reveals interactional tasks of pointing gestures beyond their referential function.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:13:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221132464
- Multimodal media: Framing climate change
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Authors: Barbara Dancygier
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
The paper uses examples of multimodal discourse to show how frame analysis can account for the choices of form in a range of multimodal (image or image-plus-text) artifacts addressing issues of climate change. Relying on the concepts of frame metonymy and blending, the article discusses a selection of artifacts representing emergent frames such as Save the Planet and Hourglass, which are pervasive in multimodal representations of climate change. The article describes the advantages and disadvantages of common multimodal stylistic choices, while addressing issues of ‘persuasive bleaching/overload’. It also uncovers some frame-related specificities of multimodal discourse.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-02T12:44:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154724
- An imperious, closed sandbox' A rejoinder to Van Dijk’s critique of
the framing perspective on social movement mobilization-
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Authors: David A Snow, Rens Vliegenthart
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we provide a response to Teun van Dijk’s criticism of the framing perspective on social movements, as expressed in his article ‘Analyzing Frame Analysis. A Critical Review of Framing Studies in Social Movement Research’. We argue that a more constructive tone is warranted and explain how his criticism is largely based on a selective reading and misinterpretation of the vast literature on framing and social movements. We provide a more detailed explanation of how discourse and related concepts such as schema and ideology are discussed by social movement scholars and critically reflect on his claim that framing as a concept can rather be replaced by discourse and/or various other cognitive/psychological constructs. Finally, we suggest how a discourse perspective and insights from social movement framing can be complementary in increasing our understanding of how movements (and other actors) communicate and with what consequences.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-02T12:43:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155079
- Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics
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Authors: Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This essay provides an overview of the study of framing in discourse as conducated in the field of interactional sociolinguistics. We review key theorizing on frames and related concepts such as footing, positioning, and speech activity that provides the foundation for this research. We note two basic understandings of frame in our field: interactive frames relate to situational definitions of what is going on in an interaction; knowledge schemas account for participants’ expectations regarding people, objects, and so on. We give examples of how interactional sociolinguists have applied framing to illuminate moment-by-moment constructions of meanings, identities, and relationships across a range of contexts, as well as the role of knowledge and memory in these processes. With examples from studies of cross-cultural communication, everyday conversations among family and friends, and interaction in medical and digital discourse contexts, we emphasize how frames are transformed and laminated (or layered). While social movements have not been a central focus of interactional sociolinguistics research, we note that concern for social justice has been of foundational concern from the inception of this field, and note a number of studies that have demonstrated how micro-level moments of social activism and change are discursively constructed. These studies attest to the relevance of interactional sociolinguistic analysis of framing to researchers interested in social movements.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-01T12:17:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155073
- Frames, framing and framing effects in cognitive CDA
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Authors: Christopher Hart
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
In this paper I provide an account of frames, framing and framing effects from the perspective of cognitive linguistics as it is applied in critical discourse analysis. Frames, here, are understood as structured bundles of concepts accessed by linguistic expressions to constitute the meaning of an utterance or linguistic formulation. I describe frames at two levels: event-frames representing basic patterns of experience in domains like action and motion and frames representing areas of experience cultivated as members of a given culture. I show how the linguistic expressions selected in media discourses of political protests access frames and event-frames to construe the activities of social movements in a particular ideologically vested fashion, including figuratively as familiar frames such as the WAR frame are recruited to provide structure in the apprehension of the target situation. I show how such framing efforts are manifested in visual depictions as well as verbal descriptions of political protests. Finally, I describe recent experimental studies that provide evidence for metaphorical framing effects in audiences.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-01T12:15:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155071
- Frame semantic grammars: Where frame analysis meets linguistics to study
collective action frames-
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Authors: Stefania Vicari
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
After navigating conceptual and empirical developments in frame analysis research, I reflect on cornerstones and weaknesses in its elaboration of a rigorous analytical prism. In the reflection, I discuss how combining the frame analysis conceptual toolkit with linguistics work on semantic grammars can perhaps help heal some of these weaknesses.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-03-01T12:14:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231154737
- Book Review: Maria Sidiropoulou, Understanding Im/politeness Through
Translation: The English-Greek Paradigm-
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Authors: Jinhai Zheng
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-25T10:32:43Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155316
- Book Review: Brian Paltridge, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction
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Authors: Chris Featherman
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-25T10:28:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155312
- Book Review: Louise Mullany and Stephanie Schnurr (eds), Globalisation,
Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication-
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Authors: Patricia Palomino-Manjón
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-25T10:24:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155311
- Book Review: Neda Chepinchikj, Interactional Approach to Cinematic
Discourse: How Do Woody Allen’s Characters Talk'-
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Authors: Xi Li
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-25T10:21:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155310
- Book Review: Binhua Wang and Jeremy Munday (eds), Advances in Discourse
Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Linking Linguistic Approaches
With Socio-Cultural Interpretation)-
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Authors: Nico Irawan
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-25T10:07:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155309
- ‘Go on keep going’: The instruction of sustained embodied
activities-
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Authors: Beatrice Szczepek Reed
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the instruction of sustained embodied activities, that is, activities that require a continuous, sustained embodied effort. The context is horse-riding lessons. Riding instructors are shown to teach sustained embodied activities in orientation to four temporalities. Most fundamentally, they co-construct these activities as an ongoing and continuing timeline, for example, by giving action-continuing directives and by projecting continuation prosodically. In addition, instructors attend to the temporal organization of individual component actions of the activity. They situate actions in the past, present, or future along the timeline of the sustained activity; they co-construct the duration of individual actions as flexible; and they orient to individual actions as brief and transient. The analysis reveals practices that do not initiate or respond to specific actions but that accompany an activity as such, treating progression itself as a target for instruction and calling into question the often-assumed sequential adjacency of action pairs.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-16T10:42:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231153578
- Frame analysis
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Authors: Teun A van Dijk
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-02-09T11:26:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456231155086
- Challenges in recognizing and facilitating disclosures of intimate partner
violence in customer service calls about maintenance support-
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Authors: Helena Tegler, Stina Fernqvist, Marie Flinkfeldt
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Separated parents in Sweden need to sort out child maintenance themselves unless there are ‘special reasons’, such as experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), in which case the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) may function as an intermediary. In such cases, the parent must disclose their experiences for institutional assessment. This study uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine 132 phone calls between parents and SSIA officers, examining how parental conflict and possible violence is brought up and responded to. The analysis shows how parents describe cooperative problems in non-specific terms, incrementally adding information that makes possible violence inferentially available, rendering it difficult for case officers to distinguish IPV from post-separation conflicts. Case officers typically respond minimally and do not encourage further tellings, which means that IPV may go unnoticed. The study highlights the need for training in how to recognize possible IPV and how to facilitate such disclosures.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2023-01-19T09:30:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221150140
- On the moral grounds of professional argumentative talk: English-mediated
talk in Iranian PhD dissertation defences-
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Authors: Ahmad Izadi
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This paper reports on two anomalous cases of intervention in two English-medium dissertation defence sessions in Iran. The first is an intervention by a co-supervisor to take side against his co-supervisor as well as to adversely retort to an examiner, pulling rank over him. The second case echoes frequent interventions by an examiner to defend the candidate against his co-examiner. The paper argues that behind this manifestation of such stark disagreements lies a moral judgement that overrides other considerations. While such interventions pose great challenges to the participants’ interpersonal relationships and lead to a great deal of face-loss and humiliation for the object of intervention, their practice is warranted by interveners to tackle a moral issue. The paper argues that invoking moral order in claims to specialised knowledge is an integral part of professional practice and are influential in the many ways that professional identities are co-constructed in situ.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-11-09T10:05:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221136258
- Delineating categories in verbal interaction
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Authors: Jack Bilmes
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
The two purposes of this paper are to define the scope of the analytical concept of category and to consider the use of categories in talk. I start by discussing different ways that the concept of category is used in fields such as linguistics and philosophy and arguing that the concept should not be limited to categories of person. I then argue that for a conversation analytic approach to discourse, what is important is that an item is treated by participants either as a category with members or as a member of a category. Next, I examine how structures of categories and category members are built by participants through their talk. Finally, I consider doing definitions as a specific activity which can be accomplished in talk through the construction of categories.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-10-20T04:41:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456211022084
- Offensive, hateful comment: A networked discourse practice of blame and
petition for justice during COVID-19 on Chinese Weibo-
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Authors: Ying Jin, Dennis Tay
First page: 3
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Using data from user comments to the official social networking account of the Hubei Red Cross Foundation on a participatory web platform, this study attends to the offensive and hateful comments produced by ordinary Internet users to blame the elite authorities for their malfeasance in managing the donation during the COVID-19 in China. Drawing on Discursive Psychology, we focus on the rhetorical strategies that users employ to legitimise their actions as well-founded evidential blame against a norm-breaking act rather than radical extremist speech. The associated hatred among discussants are moral, social judgements. That said, hate speech also helps construct the moral standards of a normalised society.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-10-11T06:42:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221129485
- Ageism in job interviews: Discreet ways of building co-membership through
age categorisation-
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Authors: Federica Previtali, Pirjo Nikander, Johanna Ruusuvuori
First page: 25
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates how age categorisation and prejudicial use of age are mobilised in talk by job applicants during job interviews and how recruiters affiliate with these. The institutional goal of recruitment is to ensure an unbiased process and evaluation, nevertheless, ageism against older workers emerges as unchallenged and culturally acceptable in authentic job interviews. In line with the discursive psychology (DP) approach, the analysis focuses on -isms as discursively constructed and categories as resources to accomplish social actions. A case study is conducted based on video recordings of 24 real job interviews held at an Italian staffing agency and analysed through membership categorisation and conversation analysis. The analysis provides evidence of how job applicants resort to age co-membership with recruiters to achieve affiliation – or remedy misalignment – by complaining about older workers. The study contributes to DP’s re-specification of prejudices as interactional practices and links microanalysis to macro phenomena, such as ageism, through categorisation practices.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-09-14T04:42:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221118770
- On granularity of doing other-initiation: Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning
is X’ in Mandarin Chinese-
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Authors: Hui Guo, Guodong Yu
First page: 51
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study examines Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning is X’ as a practice of doing other-initiation in Mandarin conversations, focusing on how it addresses different sources of troubles systematically in informing sequences. It is found that while ‘Nǐ yìsi shì’ signals the speaker’s having trouble with the prior informing turn, ‘X’ is deployed to locate different aspects of the trouble source, being shaped by how an informing emerges in talk-in-interaction. Specifically, when following a volunteered informing, ‘X’ is usually built to clarify specific words or phrases in preceding informing, thereby treating a certain element as underspecified or ambiguous. However, when following a question-solicited informing, ‘X’ is typically constructed to work out what the provided information exactly conveys, indicating the whole informing turn/action is in some way problematic, inappropriate, or inapposite. In both cases, ‘Nǐ yìsi shì X’ serves as an OI, working to target different kinds of the trouble source, and simultaneously proposes a potential solution to it.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-08-20T05:09:33Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221118999
- Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and
social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities-
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Authors: Simon Magnusson, Melisa Stevanovic
First page: 68
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Sexual consent is advocated around the world to reduce sexual assault. The widespread affirmative consent model emphasizes a need for unambiguous consent. In this paper, we contribute to a deeper understanding of how ambiguities in the initiations of sexual activities are routinely solved to achieve consent. Drawing on conversation analytic research on joint decision-making, and a dataset of 80 cases of sexual initiation in contemporary TV-series and movies, we investigate the interactional practices by which sexual activities are presented as consensual and how consent is achieved across sequences of interaction. We found there to be social advantages of synchronous initiation, compared to sequential verbal initiations, which were associated with various social vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could however be circumvented by two practices, each of which made use of a distinct combination of verbal and embodied resources. While ambiguities exist, our results oppose the idea of sexual consent as a practically hopeless and awkward endeavor. Instead, consent consists of joint action that is achieved through recognizable and systematic ways.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-08-18T04:57:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221119101
- The situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai. . ., ‘(and)
you have. . .’ within routinized multimodal Gestalts in route mapping
with visually impaired climbers-
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Authors: Monica Simone, Renata Galatolo
First page: 89
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on video-recorded data from pre-climbing route mapping with visually impaired climbers and a sight guide, this study uses conversation analysis to investigate the situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai ‘(and) you have’ within locally routinized multimodal Gestalts. The study shows that the guide uses (e) hai to progress route mapping and engage the athlete in tactile actions that target specific features of the route. In this context, (e) hai is packaged with noun phrases, silent pauses, bodily movements, and touch. The arrangement of such syntactic and embodied components is shown to follow a recurrent trajectory in which, between (e) hai and its grammatical completion, syntactic suspension creates a dedicated slot for guide and athlete to physically attain the target object. Routine embeddedness of (e) hai within such arrangement is shown to provide specific affordances to the athletes to anticipate subsequent action and engage in its embodied implementation.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-10-29T04:51:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221126320
- When a request turn is segmented: Managing the deontic authority via early
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Authors: Satomi Kuroshima
First page: 114
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
By drawing on service encounter data in Japanese, this paper analyzes a previously undocumented request action initiated by a service provider to a client as a necessary step to provide the service. The service provider and their client, both exercising respective deontic rights, collaboratively construct a request turn in particular ways. In this case, due to the Japanese SOV word order, the service provider takes advantage of segmenting their request turn to allow the recipient clients to begin compliance, who thereby acquiesce to the service provider’s deontic authority at the earliest point. By bringing the request turn to completion after the client’s compliance while reflexively showing their deontic and beneficiary stances in the turn final component, the service provider displays commitment to balancing out their relative deontic status to the client.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T12:24:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221136975
- Book Review: Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh (eds), Action Ascription
in Interaction-
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Authors: Yushun Yang
First page: 137
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:14:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221143013
- Book Review: Maria Cristina Caimotto and Rachele Raus, Lifestyle Politics
in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse-
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Authors: Keren Zhang
First page: 139
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:11:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221142993
- Book Review: Paula Pérez Sobrino, Jeannette Littlemore and Samantha Ford,
Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising
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Authors: Mingjian Xiang
First page: 141
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:10:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/09579265221142977
- Book Review: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ten Lectures on a Diachronic
Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers-
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Authors: Shuhua Zhang
First page: 144
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:13:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221143007
- Book Review: James R Martin, Beatriz Quiroz and Giacomo Figueredo (eds),
Interpersonal Grammar: Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory and
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Authors: Feifei Liu
First page: 146
Abstract: Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Discourse Studies
PubDate: 2022-12-20T06:15:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/14614456221143014
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