Constructing pseudo-intimacy in an Italo-Australian phone-in radio program

Rubino, Antonia

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.07.009

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“…The candidate in line 20 of this case appears friendlier, more enthusiastic, and more grateful to the interviewer by laughing along with the verbal expression and with he's inserted into "thank" and "much". As Potter and Hepburn (2010) has suggested, IPA indicates more than a mere returned appreciation, it might reveal in this position a willingness to turn their relationship into an intimate one (Rubino, 2016), if the solidarity has been built through the interview.…”

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Laughter as Responses to Different Actions in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview

Gao¹,

Wu²

2018

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Laughter, as an important interactional resource, has been recognized as not simply a response to humor in many researches. It is much related to an action formation from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In this oral proficiency interviews for admission into a certain English college between native interviewer and Chinese candidates, there appear quite a number of cases in which laughter serves as the major constituent of the responding turn to the first pair part (FPP) (except for questions) in terms of adjacency pair. This study, therefore, identifies those responding actions that laughter performs, or concurrently constructs, from the perspective of Conversation Analysis, and explores the reasons why laughter is employed and the roles that laughter has achieved. Hence it contributes to the understanding of laughter as a resource of alignment or affiliation in oral proficiency interview, and consequently a vital paralinguistic constituent of L2 interactional competence.

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Laughter as Responses to Different Actions in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview

Gao¹,

Wu²

2018

OJML

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“…This is important to put aside pseudo-intimacy or pseudo-intimacy (Matwick & Matwick, 2018). Pseudo-intimacy, according to Rubino (2016), 'is built as a shared tool between speech participants that can facilitate other improvements, such as conflict, in a non-threatening way'.…”

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Dialect Politeness: Is Violating the Cooperative Principle an Impoliteness?

Fahruddin

Usman²,

Utami³

2022

geej

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The way someone shows politeness in speech acts is not only seen from a macro understanding of how speech participants can keep each other's face and maintain maxims with the inclusion of linguistic elements. Politeness of speech acts should be seen and understood on a micro level; more specifically in the context of language use in a language community as a cultural practice, both collectively and individually. Using the ethnographic perspective of communication, the current study investigates the politeness of speech acts in the context of guidance and counselling communication interactions in senior high schools, in the province of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results of the analysis of S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G showed that the politeness of speech acts that appeared in the guidance and counselling process was mediated pragmatically by the use of local dialects. To find the forms, functions, strategies, and cooperative principles of speech act politeness that exist in the speech process, further analysis is carried out using coding techniques which also aims to construct a concept. The results of the analysis showed three forms of politeness, four functions of politeness, six strategies of politeness, and two principles of cooperative principles. The current study understands that violating the principle of cooperation in the context of communication in this study is actually a courtesy and that is why a polite speech act should be relied on the context in which a communication happened. This understanding was constructed theoretically then labelled as 'Dialect politeness' as a cultural communication practice.

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“…It is a typical feature in Chinese culture where kinship terms are used to address non-kin people to show close relationships. Such addressing terms may bring about a sense of intimacy among audiences towards the heroes who are completely unknown to them; a pseudointimacy (Rubino, 2016) between audiences and the news story is likely to be constructed. Other social terms which usually refer to 'ordinary' people, such as 师傅 (Master) and 老人 (the elderly person), are also used frequently.…”

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Audience engagement with news on Chinese social media: A discourse analysis of the People’s Daily official account on WeChat

Chun-lei

2021

Discourse & Communication

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Delivering news on social media platforms is an increasingly important consideration in journalism practice. However, little attention has been paid to audience engagement with news on social media, especially the discursive presentation of news on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. Based on 36 news reports collected from the People’s Daily official account, this study analyses how news discourse is constructed and presented to engage audiences. The results suggest that highlighting proximity, personalisation, positivity and human interest in news values are the strategies adopted by journalists to engage audiences. The headline tends to use forward-referring terms and performs the speech acts of assertives and expressives to construct news values of proximity and positivity. The news story makes use of particular addressing terms, reported speeches and evaluative markers to construct news values of personalisation, positivity and human interest. The study enriches the analysis of journalistic practice of news on social media in the Chinese context.

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Constructing pseudo-intimacy in an Italo-Australian phone-in radio program

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Laughter as Responses to Different Actions in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview

Laughter as Responses to Different Actions in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview

Dialect Politeness: Is Violating the Cooperative Principle an Impoliteness?

Audience engagement with news on Chinese social media: A discourse analysis of the People’s Daily official account on WeChat

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