Journal•ISSN: 0835-1813
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Taylor & Francis
About: Research on Language and Social Interaction is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Conversation analysis & Conversation. It has an ISSN identifier of 0835-1813. Over the lifetime, 997 publications have been published receiving 36507 citations.
Topics: Conversation analysis, Conversation, Social relation, Discourse analysis, Interpersonal communication
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TL;DR: The authors examine the communication resources participants to tellings rely on to manage displays of alignment and affiliation during the telling and find that the concepts of structural alignment and social affiliation are separate interactional issues and are managed by different response tokens in mid-telling.
Abstract: Through stories, tellers communicate their stance toward what they are reporting. Story recipients rely on different interactional resources to display alignment with the telling activity and affiliation with the teller's stance. In this article, I examine the communication resources participants to tellings rely on to manage displays of alignment and affiliation during the telling. The primary finding is that whereas vocal continuers simply align with the activity in progress, nods also claim access to the teller's stance toward the events (whether directly or indirectly). In mid-telling, when a recipient nods, she or he claims to have access to the teller's stance toward the event being reported, which in turn conveys preliminary affiliation with the teller's position and that the story is on track toward preferred uptake at story completion. Thus, the concepts of structural alignment and social affiliation are separate interactional issues and are managed by different response tokens in the mid-telling...
915 citations
TL;DR: The authors constructing social identity: A Language Socialization Perspective, in the context of Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 287-306.
Abstract: (1993). Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 287-306.
754 citations
TL;DR: The authors Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 99-128, is a collection of essays on language and social interaction.
Abstract: (1993). Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 99-128.
539 citations
TL;DR: This article explored the syntactic forms speakers use when making requests and found that modal verbs are most common in ordinary conversation, whereas I wonder if is most frequent in requests made to the doctor.
Abstract: In this article, we explore the syntactic forms speakers use when making requests. An initial investigation of ordinary telephone calls between family and friends and out-of-hours calls to the doctor showed a difference in the distribution of modal verbs (e.g., Can you …), and requests prefaced by I wonder if. Modals are most common in ordinary conversation, whereas I wonder if … is most frequent in requests made to the doctor. This distributional difference seemed to be supported by calls from private homes to service organizations in which speakers also formatted requests as I wonder if. Further investigation of these and other corpora suggests that this distributional pattern is related not so much with the sociolinguistic speech setting but rather with speakers' orientations to known or anticipated contingencies associated with their request. The request forms speakers select embody, or display, their understandings of the contingencies associated with the recipient's ability to grant the request.
531 citations
Abstract: (1995). Co-Construction: An Introduction. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 171-183.
430 citations