Generating Applause: A Study of Rhetoric and Response at Party Political Conferences

Greatbatch, David

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“…Some of the conversational categories and moves involved here may be conventional or formulaic, such as the ways the Speaker of the House and the other 'honorable' representatives are being addressed in Congress in the USA and the Commons in the UK, and how turns and speaking time are being allocated and redistributed by members of parliament and congress. Similarly, political rhetoric may be accompanied, interactively, by applause and its strategic elicitation (Atkinson 1984;Heritage & Greatbatch 1986). Fairclough (1994) observes that more generally current public, including political, discourse is undergoing a process of `conversationalization'.…”

Section: Speech Acts and Interactionmentioning

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What is Political Discourse Analysis?

Dijk

1997

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Section: Speech Acts and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is Political Discourse Analysis?

Dijk

1997

BJL

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“…Studies of oratory suggest this difficult problem of co-ordination is solved by the use of a range of rhetorical formats (Atkinson, 1984a,b;Heritage and Greatbatch, 1986). These are ways of constructing talk so that completions can be easily predicted.…”

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Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

Potter

1998

European Review of Social Psychology

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This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology, and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how our understanding of political oratory can be improved; it discusses the way evaluations are bound up with broader, culturally defined, systems of discourse; it discusses the relation between assessments and factual accounts; and finally it shows how a discursive approach can rework notions of function, consistency, vested interest, and emotion.The aim of this chapter is to introduce a discursive approach to social psychology to people who are more familiar with the mainstream experimental social cognition tradition.After making some preliminary remarks about the history, aims and theory of discursive social psychology I will focus on what would traditionally be called the social psychology of attitudes. This topic has the virtue of being at the heart of social psychology for much of the century, and thus provides a familiar startpoint for anyone wishing to understand what is distinctive about the discursive approach, and how radical its respecification of traditional notions will be.

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“…Atkinson (1984) described several techniques speakers at public meetings use to invite audience applause. Furthering the examination of applause generation, Heritage and Greatbatch (1986) found seven rhetorical devices that precede applause. Virtually all of these devices entail compound turn-constructional unit formats.…”

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On the syntax of sentences-in-progress

1991

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This article describes how it could be possible for two participants engaged in conversation to jointly produce a single syntactic unit such as a sentence. From an inspection of sentence types that are achieved through such joint production, it was determined that participants have available a single utterance construction format. This format, the compound turn-constructional unit format, may be a component of a socially construed syntax-for-conversation. It can be constituted by a wide range of interactionally relevant features of talk in interaction that reveal an emerging utterance as a multiple component turn-constructional unit. The compound turn-constructional unit format is primarily a resource for turn-taking. It can be used to project the next proper place for speaker change. However, it concomitantly provides the resources needed to complete the utterance-in-progress of another participant, thus allowing for the construction of a single sentence across the talk of two speakers. (Conversation, interaction, recognizable activity)The central task of this report is the characterization of single sentences that are produced across the talk of two (or more) speakers. This can be seen in Example (1), where the recipient of an ongoing turn produces a completion for the not-yet-completed turn.(1) [CDHQ:ll] Marty: Now most machines don't record that slow. So l'd wanna-when l make a tape, -> Josh:be able tuh speed it up.The collaboration of two speakers within what is achieved as a single sentence provides a way to recover features of sentence structure, where those features are not wholly tied to the talk of individual speakers.' Sentence production can be seen here as an interactional achievement? The import of this is that the completion of one speaker's utterance by another participant reveals aspects of an interactionally relevant syntax. Rather than simply describing the "historical" constituents of a complete sentence, the examination of this type of collaboration makes possible the description of features of a sentence-in-progress.

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Generating Applause: A Study of Rhetoric and Response at Party Political Conferences

Cited by 302 publications

References 11 publications

What is Political Discourse Analysis?

What is Political Discourse Analysis?

Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices

On the syntax of sentences-in-progress

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