Emotion as Stance

Goodwin, Marjorie Harness; Čekaitė, Asta; Goodwin, Charles

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“…The reports of distress are treated as being part of the "narrative world" being described in the complainant's account. The emotion described in the story is probably better conceived of as an economical way for the teller to display her contemporaneous stance towards the events (for emotion as stance, see M. H. Goodwin et al, 2012). In receiving the account, the interviewer is co--operating by aligning (Lindström and Sorjonen, 2013) with the activity of story--telling, but not affiliating (Lindström and Sorjonen, 2013) with the stance expressed in it.…”

Section: Reports Of Distressmentioning

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Dealing with the distress of people with intellectual disabilities reporting sexual assault and rape

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When police officers interview people with intellectual disabilities who allege sexual assault and rape, they must establish rapport with the interviewee but deal with their distress in a way that does not compromise the interview’s impartiality and its acceptability in court. Inspection of 19 videotaped interviews from an English police force’s records reveals that the officers deal with expressed distress by choosing among three practices: minimal (e.g. okay) or no acknowledgement, acknowledging the expressed emotion as a matter of the complainant’s difficulty in proceeding (e.g. take your time) and rarely (and only if the complainants were apparently unable to resume their talk) explicit reference to their emotion (e.g. it’s obviously upsetting for you). We discuss these practices as ways of managing the conflicting demands of rapport and evidence-gathering.

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Section: Reports Of Distressmentioning

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“…That is, the licking is even worse than the whining and beginning. Her affect is specifiable as disgust, as she first registers the source of disgust through a noticing (Wiggins, 2012) and then simultaneously voices her evaluation while turning her head away and back in a canonical expression of disgust (lines 9-10) (M. H. Goodwin, Cekaite, & Goodwin, 2012).…”

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Sighing in Interaction: Somatic, Semiotic, and Social

Hoey

2014

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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“…This paradigm has its roots in Darwin's Theory of Emotion Expression (1872/1965 and was developed in, for example, Paul Ekman's experimental research (e.g. Ekman and Friesen 1971) in which 'expression' of affection and/or emotion is investigated in relation to individual bodily responses, including heart rate and facial expressions (for a summary see, for example , Floyd 2006;Goodwin, Cekaite and Goodwin 2012;Wetherell 2012). …”

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‘You are stupid, you are cupid’

Pichler

2017

GENL

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Abstract:Whereas language and gender studies' explorations of couples' talk have tended to focus on collaborative vs competitive conversational style, social psychological work on couples' intimate relationships has long been driven by an interest in expressions of affection. This paper aims to show that linguistic discourse analysis can make a significant contribution to our understanding of how affection is expressed in intimate relationships. The paper focuses on the playful switching of frames, voices, codes and personas which emerges as central to the affectionate practice in the spontaneous talk of a young multi-cultural London couple. It argues that quantitative interview studies based on an a-priori understanding of affection are unable to capture many of the idiosyncratic and creative ways in which speakers express their affection for one another in their intimate talk. 1) IntroductionThis paper aims to make a contribution to research on the talk of heterosexual couples in intimate relationships, an area which has not received much attention in language and gender studies in the last 2-3 decades. The self-recorded talk of the young couple I will explore in this paper has redirected my focus from conversational dominance and difference, topics which were at the centre of previous language and gender research on couples' talk, towards an exploration of expressions of affection. At the same time as offering a fresh perspective to the long tradition of language and gender studies of couples' talk, this paper will demonstrate the contribution that a discourse analytic approach based on frame analysis (Goffman 1974, Tannen 1993) is able to make to the study of affection in intimate relationships, an area of research that has been dominated by scholarship in social psychology. The paper will focus on the playful switching of voices and personas that emerges as a central resource for the expression of affection in the spontaneous talk of a young multi-cultural couple, arguing that research exploring affection on the basis of predetermined behaviours or locutions (such as 'I love you') does not encourage exploration of more idiosyncratic and indirect ways in which intimate partners express their affection for one another.The pioneering work of Pamela Fishman (1980), Victoria DeFrancisco (1991 and Deborah Tannen (1990) investigated the interaction of women and men in intimate relationships. The argument that women and men's conversational style differs and can be the cause of miscommunication in couples' talk was of course most prominently promoted in Deborah Tannen (1990) book You just don't understand. The book had a vast non-academic readership but was vigorously critiqued by language and gender scholars for its reliance on anecdotal

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Emotion as Stance

Cited by 179 publications

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Dealing with the distress of people with intellectual disabilities reporting sexual assault and rape

Dealing with the distress of people with intellectual disabilities reporting sexual assault and rape

Sighing in Interaction: Somatic, Semiotic, and Social

‘You are stupid, you are cupid’

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