Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle

Lambrou, Marina

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“…Given that turn-taking patterns are associated with power relations, Short (1996) originally offered a set of dimensions from turn-taking patterns to identify powerful and powerless speakers in dramatic dialogue. 2 These dimensions have been supported by other studies, such as Herman (1998), Lambrou (2014) and Gibbons and Whiteley (2018). 3 However, the variable of turn preference, that is, preferred and dispreferred responsive turns in adjacency pairs, has also proven effective in revealing power relations (Short, 2014;Thornborrow and Wareing, 1998).…”

Section: Turn-taking Patterns In Pragmatic Stylisticsmentioning

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Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach

Yang

2023

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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This article investigates power dynamics reflected in the conversations between characters in Arthur Miller’s written text, A View from the Bridge, from the perspective of pragmatic stylistics. Given that techniques from conversation analysis have proven feasible and effective in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, this article analyses and interprets the development of power relations in the Carbone family by means of turn-taking patterns. In general, this article argues that Eddie’s authority is consecutively undermined in front of Catherine, while his control over Beatrice is gradually reinforced. Moreover, Beatrice’s manipulation of Catherine is continuously challenged. Based on the above results, this article demonstrates that the changing power relations are a fundamental cause of family conflicts and the final tragedy. Therefore, this article shows that turn-taking analysis is a new way of explaining how we understand dynamic power relations between characters in this dramatic text.

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Section: Turn-taking Patterns In Pragmatic Stylisticsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach

Yang

2023

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…In Logic and Dialogue, H.P. Grice focused on cooperation in dialogue, which evolved from language use and pragmatics to study how individuals engage in collaborative communication [5,6]. In it, he argues that 'conversational communication' is not simply a 'continuum of intermittent speech,' and that if it were, it would not be rational.…”

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Conversational Implications in Zootopia in the Light of Violations of the Cooperative Principle

Zhang

2023

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The principle of cooperation is an important philological theory developed by Grice. Apart from its importance in guiding oral communication, it is also pivotal to the expressive power of cinematic art. This paper uses some of the wonderful dialogues in Zootopia as material to explore how the characters in the film violate the principle of cooperation in their conversations, thus making the language scenario realistic and natural, the characters vivid and the effect of the work visible. This paper states that the violation of the cooperative principle contributes to the humorous and sarcastic linguistic style of the characters, as well as to their characterization.

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“…They are traceable in many analyses of classroom discourse (Barnes et al, 1969; Mercer and Edwards, 1987; Nystrand and Gamaron, 1991; Wells, 1999) including those adapting conversation analysis (Sacks et al, 1974) to examine the architecture of talk teaching and learning in schools (Sahlström, 2009; Seedhouse, 2004). Curiously, though conversation analysis has been aligned with stylistics to examine the representation of talk as dialogue in literary texts (Lambrou, 2014), the two perspectives have not been aligned to analyse talk where literature is the focal object of conversation, and where the language of texts influences talk about them. My approach adapts conversation analysis to account for the central role of texts in literary studies interaction and pedagogy.…”

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A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction:Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Studyin higher education pedagogy

Gordon

2022

Language and Literature

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This article presents a pedagogical stylistics of intertextuality in interactive literary study talk. It analyses case study data representing one higher education seminar discussion, where a tutor and student interpret a focal text through reference to diverse intertexts. The article asks: How do participants enact intertextual literary analysis in conversation? How are intertextual voices introduced? How do intertextual voices relate to focal texts and position readers’ orientations to them? The transcript represents the interplay of participant and text voices around Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett. The article examines the intertextual invocations made by participants in interaction including their pedagogic function. It adopts a methodology combining pedagogical stylistics with a conversation-analytic mentality. Commentary adapts Lemke’s four categories of intertextual connection (cothematic, co-orienting, coactional and cogeneric) to describe functions of intertextual invocation in talk, adding two new categories of co-illumination and cogeneration. The results suggest participants in literary study talk use intertextual invocations to develop insights, position the responses of others and sustain co-constructed interpretation. The article proposes the term Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Study (THIS) to describe this pedagogical format, with linked terminology to identify its multivocal, deictic and organisational traits. This pedagogical stylistics helps researchers and teachers describe and understand the development of intertextual analysis in literary study talk.

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Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle

Cited by 7 publications

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Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach

Dynamic power relations between characters in A View from the Bridge: A pragmastylistic approach

Conversational Implications in Zootopia in the Light of Violations of the Cooperative Principle

A pedagogical stylistics of intertextual interaction:Talk as Heteroglot Intertextual Studyin higher education pedagogy

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