Displays of uncertainty and proximal deontic claims: The case of proposal sequences

Stevanovic, Melisa

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.12.002

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“…Treating the normative organization of the adjacency-pair sequence as the central locus of negotiation over deontic rights, I will now consider how this negotiation happens in practice. Drawing on previous studies by myself (Stevanovic, 2011;Stevanovic, 2012a;Stevanovic, 2012b;Stevanovic, 2013a;Stevanovic, 2013b;Stevanovic, 2015;Stevanovic, 2017;Stevanovic & Peräkylä, 2012;Stevanovic & Monzoni, 2016) Svennevig & Djordjilovic, 2015;Toerien, 2017), I will discuss three different patterns of managing deontic concerns in and through sequential relations. Arguably, deontic concerns are a potential part of all adjacency pairs, but they are particularly relevant in those sequences where future actions are at issue.…”

Section: Deontic Patterns In Sequential Relationsmentioning

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Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play

Stevanovic

2018

J Theory Soc Behav

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The notion of "deontic rights"-the capacity of an individual to determine action-is described as a tool to analyze human power plays in the turn-by-turn unfolding of social interaction. Drawing on various bodies of literature, the paper portrays the organization of the adjacency-pair sequence as the key locus of negotiation over deontic rights. How such negotiations happen in practice is also considered. Two deontic patterns instantiating themselves in sequential relations-deontic congruence and deontic incongruence-are discussed. Negotiations of deontic rights are suggested to take place specifically in and through three different forms of deontic incongruence, each of which involves a subtle mismatch between the claims of deontic rights of the first speaker and the recipient's treatment of these claims. These implicit power plays easily escape the eye and are therefore difficult to reflect upon and counteract by the participants themselves, which makes a thorough understanding of these mechanisms important.KEYWORDS authority, conversation analysis, deontics, power, sequentialityThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Deontic Patterns In Sequential Relationsmentioning

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Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play

Stevanovic

2018

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“…Within CA, there is a growing interest in two important and interrelated concepts that are related to authority: viz. epistemics (e.g., Raymond & Heritage 2006;Heritage 2012) and deontics (e.g., Stevanovic & Peräkylä 2012;Stevanovic 2015). Epistemic authority is, as Stevanovic and Peräkylä (2012, 297) point out, the right to know how the world is.…”

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The multimodal enactment of deontic and epistemic authority in Indian meetings

Clifton

Mieroop

Sehgal³

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Authority is a much discussed topic in organizational literature, but its in situ enactment is little investigated. Using the notions of deontic and epistemic authority and using multimodal conversation analysis as a research methodology, the purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical study of authority-in-action. We particularly focus on both sequences of talk and the multimodal resources that are mobilised to ‘do’ authority. Furthermore, as research from non-Western contexts remains rare, we complement insights into authority enactment based on ‘Western’ data by using data that is drawn from a corpus of naturally-occurring video-recorded faculty meetings at an Indian University. Findings indicate that the doing of authority can be made visible by explicating participants’ orientation to their respective deontic and epistemic rights and their invocation of particular identities, which are accomplished by means of a complex intertwining of verbal and non-verbal resources.

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“…In regards to the second aspect of entitlement, deontic rights are about who has the right and obligation to define and perform future actions (Stevanovic & Peräkylä, 2012;Landmark, Gulbrandsen & Svennevig, 2015;Svennevig & Djordjilovic, 2015). In the context of proposals, Stevanovic (2015) showed a distinction between proximal deontics ("people's rights to initiate, maintain, or close up local sequences of conversational action") and distal deontics ("people's rights to control and decide about their own and others' future doings") (Stevanovic 2015: 85-6). This distinction is also applicable to our study, as an orientation to rights and obligations of suggesting and implementing proposals can relate to actions that are in close proximity to the ongoing activity (e.g.…”

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Strategy making as a communicative practice: the multimodal accomplishment of strategy roles

Asmuß¹,

Oshima

2018

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We do so by investigating one significant activity within an organizational strategy making process, namely strategy meetings. Here, members of the upper management group create concrete drafts for the actual strategy document, and we focus on a specific action sequence where strategy actors propose changes to the strategy document. Specifically, we investigate how the participants subsequently deal with the proposal, how such interaction work facilitates the accomplishment of strategy roles, and how the interaction impacts the decision making process. Our study shows that strategy actors, when making these decisions, not only orient to an acceptance or rejection of the proposal but also to questions of entitlement (Asmuß & Oshima, 2012). This orientation involves multimodal resources, ranging from talk (Samra-Fredericks, 2003) to embodied and material resources. The study thus provides an empirical demonstration of the processual aspects of strategy work and their impact on strategic outcomes; further, it highlights the importance for practice studies to acknowledge communicative (verbal, embodied and material) aspects in capturing the complexity of strategy work.

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Displays of uncertainty and proximal deontic claims: The case of proposal sequences

Cited by 46 publications

References 22 publications

Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play

Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play

The multimodal enactment of deontic and epistemic authority in Indian meetings

Strategy making as a communicative practice: the multimodal accomplishment of strategy roles

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