Spanish no, sí: Reactive moves to perceived face-threatening acts, Part II

Koike, Dale A.; Vann, Robert E; Busquets, Joan

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(01)80033-3

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“…Each side attempts to prove its point by providing possible explanations and counter-explanations (20,21), which are not fully developed because of the many mutual interruptions. On one hand, the interruptions, such as the yes/no reactions (22,25,26,27), function as immediate pragmatic responses to the perceived threatening (Koike et al, 2001), but on the other, they display a high degree of mutual involvement between the participants (Tannen, 1989).…”

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Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse

Ehrlich

Blum‐Kulka

2010

Discourse & Society

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We propose a theoretical view of peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’, functioning concurrently on the plane of meaning making within childhood culture, as a locus for the co-construction of children’s social world and peer culture, while at the same time affording opportunities for the development of discursive learning (Blum-Kulka, 2005; Blum-Kulka et al., 2004: 308). In the present article, we provide further evidence for this twofold concept by analyzing peer talk in preschoolers’ genre of argumentation in natural interactions. We show that argumentative events, identified in peer talk, indeed display affordances on both planes. On the plane of childhood culture, we pinpoint the ways argumentative events maintain and/or transform the social order and display features of children’s culture. On the developmental plane, we show how children’s argumentative moves and discursive strategies incorporate innovative child-unique strategies, as well as strategies which echo discursive conventions from the adult culture, allowing for the refinement of both types of strategies through interactional display. These findings illustrate the integration of a cultural and a developmental approach within one model of peer talk discursive events.

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Section: Constructing a Good Defensive Argumentmentioning

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Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse

Ehrlich

Blum‐Kulka

2010

Discourse & Society

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“…Brown andLevinson ([1978] 1987) proposed positive face to explain how politeness is related to people's desire to be liked or approved. A contradiction or expression of non-agreement/disagreement, which means that the speaker thinks there is something wrong with an opinion held by the hearer, can threaten the hearer's positive face (Koike et al, 2001). Even saying something irreverent or irrelevant (including evasion) threatens the hearer's positive face, since it reveals that the speaker does not care about the hearer's values.…”

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“…Therefore, meiyou can be a linguistic signal that some threat to face is perceived in a previous utterance. Of course, the signal of the perceived threat can be, in and of itself, a counterthreat to the person who made the initial threat, and as such it is sometimes redressed; that is, it is accompanied by an explanation to maintain politeness in the discourse (Koike et al, 2001). Thus, a speaker uses meiyou to stand his or her ground with respect to the other participant(s) in the dialogue and to avoid direct disagreement with them at the same time.…”

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From informational to emotive use: meiyou (`no') as a discourse marker in Taiwan Mandarin conversation

Tsai

Ling²

2007

Discourse Studies

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Discourse marker analysis has been widely studied, leading Fraser (1998: 301) to call this subject `a growth market in linguistics'. In our present research, we extended the study of discourse markers to the Chinese marker meiyou, which has traditionally been treated as a negator (e.g. Biq, 1989; Teng, 1973a, 1973b, 1975). The corpus studied here contains 40 conversations, totaling 482'27”. The analytical framework adopted in the study was drawn from van Dijk's model (1979), which mainly consists of a semantic/textual level (i.e. sequences of utterances/propositions) and a pragmatic/interactional level (i.e. speech-acts). A total of 141 occurrences of meiyou were identified as discourse markers in the corpus: 13 of them occur at the textual level and 128 of them at the interactional level. Thus, meiyou occurs more frequently at the interactional level than at the textual level. At the textual level, meiyou introduces an answer to a self-inquiry or self-correction. At the interactional level, meiyou mainly serves as a response to provide information, as a marker of correction/clarification or evasion, and as a response to praise or gratitude. In particular, with respect to meiyou's interactive functions, we use the concepts of preference structure (Sacks et al., 1974) and face-threatening acts (Brown and Levinson, [1978] 1987) to analyze the collected data. We further demonstrate that intersubjectification (Traugott and Dasher, 2002), a mechanism whereby meanings become more centered on the addressee, is involved in the development of the discourse marker meiyou.

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2022

Advances in (Im)politeness Studies

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Spanish no, sí: Reactive moves to perceived face-threatening acts, Part II

Cited by 11 publications

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Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse

Peer talk as a ‘double opportunity space’: The case of argumentative discourse

From informational to emotive use: meiyou (`no') as a discourse marker in Taiwan Mandarin conversation

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