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Doing being ordinary nonetheless: Navigating social expectations in a peer support group Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sarah Hitzler
Peer support groups offer spaces where individuals with similar problems can gather to offer each other support and understanding. Successions of narratives have been described as very effective instruments in building shared understanding in such groups. This article adds to these findings by analyzing a single case in an obesity support group. It shows that successions of narratives can be used to
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AI and racism: Tone policing by the Bing AI chatbot Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Timothy Appignani, Jacob Sanchez
This paper looks at the way that Bing AI uses tone policing and racial gaslighting in its conversations with users as a method of disciplining them away from critical anti-racist ideological engagement and towards an ethos of white supremacy. We use a critical discourse analysis to examine the conversations produced through our use of Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot to find that through both the content
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Laughter in hospital emergency departments Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Susy Macqueen, Luke Collins, Gavin Brookes, Zsófia Demjén, Elena Semino, Diana Slade
For patients, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are unfamiliar, institutional contexts involving high-stakes communication in heightened emotional circumstances. This study examines laughter, as one expression of emotion, in an existing 649,631-word corpus of naturally occurring clinician-patient interactions recorded in five Australian hospitals. A mixed methods approach revealed (1) the spread
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Book review: Gábor Tahin, Heuristic Rhetoric: Principle and Practice Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Tianlu Ji
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Book review: Patrizia Anesa and Jan Engberg (eds), The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse: New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Chunhui Zhang
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Book review: Mark Jary, Nothing is Said: Utterance and Interpretation Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jiayu Han
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Book review: Simon Statham, Critical Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Power in Language Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Baorong Huang
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Discourse markers in small talk and tasks Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Andrew J Guydish, Allison Nguyen, Jean E Fox Tree
Discourse markers help people navigate conversations. We tested how the use of five discourse markers – so, but, oh, I think, and like – was influenced by communication medium (text, phone, videoconferencing) and conversation type (task-related conversation or small talk). Additionally, we tested whether these discourse markers influenced the amount of words contributed throughout the conversation
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Framing offer-related actions as assistance at jewelry stores in Japan Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Takeshi Hiramoto
While most of the studies on assistance in talk-in-interaction from the conversation analytic perspective presuppose that the actor who receives assistance already has or is expected to have problems, issues, needs, or demands, assistance can be offered without the expression or existence of plausible expectations of problems, issues, needs, or demands. Using the methodology of conversation analysis
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The #PantamiMustGo political activism: A textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Innocent Chiluwa, Chuka Fred Ononye
This study analyses the narrative structure of the #PantamiMustGo hashtag activism in Nigeria. Applying qualitative textual analysis, the study examines the issues that were made salient in the protests and how they were constructed. Through the analysis of narrative agency, the study finds that activists constructed Ali Pantami as a threat to national security and called for his resignation. Two discourse
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Time-oriented decisions in Palliative Care team meetings Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 David Monteiro, Oriana Rainho Brás, Michel Binet
In a wide diversity of workplaces time and temporality are an omnirelevant feature of the praxeological and material environment, as observable by the pervasiveness of chrono-metrical and chronological technologies and artifacts, and by workers’ orientation to matters of punctuality, productivity and other aspects of task dispatch and managerial organization. Professionals’ orientation to time takes
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Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Simon Goodman, Abigail Locke
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate
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Negotiating joint commitment in collaborative work project: Focus on text-based requests and news deliveries in atypical work Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Mikko T Virtanen, Riikka Nissi
The shift to service and gig economy and increasing polymediality have created communicative contexts where the workers have to construct varying social relations in different kinds of digital and text-based interaction environments. This article examines how transprofessional collaboration is managed in such contexts in the field of applied arts. Based on email and mobile messaging data, we study
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Denial from the other side: Experiences of racism as narrated by South Sudanese refugees in Australia Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Anikó Hatoss
This paper discusses experiences of everyday racism as narrated by South Sudanese refugee-background informants living in Australia. The paper draws on accounts of verbal and physical attacks reported during a sociolinguistic interview about the refugee experience and adaptation to the Australian lifestyle. The study contributes to the exploration of features of refugee narratives, using the socio-interactional
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The disputed territories of information: The case of alleged war crimes during the Kosovo War Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Majlinda Bregasi, Thomas Christiansen
This article analyses participants’ sense-making and demonstrates procedural consequentially and relevance, and makes the data on which observations are based available to readers. By looking at a TV interview, in Albanian, of Hashim Thaçi, the former PM of Kosovo, given to respond to allegations against him regarding involvement in war crimes, the focus will be not only on what it is said but also
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Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Zhiying Jian
Advice-giving is not only a crucial pedagogic activity in student supervision but also responsive conduct to students’ expressions of trouble in talk in-interaction. However, we know little about how advice-giving arrives in such sequences. This study uses conversation analysis to examine supervisory advice-giving in responding turns after students express their trouble. It is demonstrated that students’
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Linguistic variation in supreme court oral arguments by legal professionals: A novel multi-dimensional analysis Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Yingqi Huang, Zhonggang Sang
This study uses the method of novel Multi-Dimensional Analysis to compare the discourses of justices, appellant’s attorneys, and respondent’s attorneys to provide a corpus-based description of linguistic co-occurrence patterns in their registers during oral arguments based on the extracted seven functional dimensions: (1) Instructive argumentation versus Informational production; (2) Elaborative exposition;
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Inferred vision: An analysis of the commentators’ descriptions of players’ visual perceptions and intentions during volleyball broadcasts Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Naonori Akiya
This study explores how inferential description relates to expert knowledge by analyzing commentators’ inferential descriptions of players’ visual perceptions and intentions during live volleyball match broadcasts. The analysis revealed that even when the commentator could not provide the viewer with detailed visual evidence of what, when, and how the player perceives their surroundings, they could
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Illusory authenticity: Negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Núria Almiron, Laura Fernández, Miquel Rodrigo-Alsina
Society’s compassion towards nonhuman animals used in experimentation has grown exponentially. This paper adopts critical discourse analysis to examine how the animal experimentation industry negotiates this societal moral response. To this end, the discourse of the largest animal experimentation interest group in Spain has been studied. Our findings show that the industry, as represented by this interest
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Understanding performance responses: Instructional transitions in musical masterclasses Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Darren J Reed
This paper extends analysis of the ‘assessment receipt’ to include talk and embodied interaction during ‘performance responses’ in music masterclass interactions. By grounding the analysis in questions of performance completion and audience applause onset, it details the utility of variously position assessment tokens, during performance, before applause, during applause and after applause. These different
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Co-constructing parenthood in multiparty interaction: Orienting to parents’ rights and responsibilities to act on behalf of others Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ruey-Ying Liu
Drawing on naturally occurring, multiparty interactional data involving parents, children, and third parties (e.g. friends and relatives), this conversation analytic study investigates how the status of ‘parent’ is co-constructed on a moment-by-moment basis in the course of everyday interaction. The analysis focuses on participant orientation to parents’ rights to act on behalf of their children and
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Doing mutual understanding in child and family therapy sessions: How three interlocutors calibrate new information Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Kristina Edman
This paper presents an analysis of how three interlocutors sequentially organize and accomplish mutual understanding in naturally occurring audiovisual recordings of therapy sessions. The analysis is in keeping with microanalysis of face-to-face dialog (MFD) and follows operational definitions of three-step micro-processes that interlocutors use when they calibrate new information; that is, how they
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Discursive management of patients’ disagreement with doctors’ recommendations in Nigerian hospital visits Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Akin Odebunmi, Oluwatomi Adeoti
Patients’ disagreement with doctors’ treatment recommendations, which receives participatory or non-participatory attention from the consultative parties, constitutes a major discursive issue in clinical encounters. However, the literature on medical discourse has demonstrated more concentration on the participatory than the non-participatory dimension of the encounters. This discursive representation
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Public note-taking on a digital platform as a workplace practice Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Elina Salomaa, Esa Lehtinen
Unlike traditional note-taking with pen and paper, in which the note-taking process is only partially accessible to the co-participants, note-taking in the digitalized workplace may be done publicl...
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‘I just need a yes or no’: Managing resistant responses in U.S. Senate hearings Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Marissa Caldwell, Joshua Raclaw
Using conversation analysis, this article examines how questioners manage resistant responses in the context of U.S. Senate hearings. In particular, we examine how questioning Senators use explicit...
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Three decades of the framing perspective on social movements: Changing trends and continuities Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Oriol Barranco, Lluís Parcerisa
This article reviews the development of the framing perspective on social movements since its emergence over three decades ago. The review led to three conclusions. During this period, the impact o...
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On the defence of antifascist Italy in Alcide De Gasperi’s 1946 speech to the Paris Peace Conference Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Emanuele Brambilla
Faced with the gradual rise of neofascist parties in Europe, the present paper looks back at the past to analyse a speech delivered by one of the founding fathers of the European Union, namely Alci...
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Arguing through best practice: The role of argumentation from example in activists’ social media posts on sustainable fashion Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Sara Greco, Chiara Mercuri, Barbara De Cock, Rebecca Schär
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolutio...
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Place formulations and the incongruity procedure: On police officers’ practices for assembling appearances of wrongdoing Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 André Buscariolli
‘Place’ is central to police work. Not only does the law prescribe proper uses of public spaces, but officers learn how to infer suspicion from people’s conduct and appearances at particular places...
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Introduction Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Manfred Kienpointner
This special issue represents some of the recent developments within argumentation studies. The following overview provides some historical context for the five papers which constitute this special...
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A functional diversity of argumentative styles Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen
In dealing with the different ways in which argumentative styles manifest themselves in various communicative practices from several communicative domains, van Eemeren and Garssen start from a defi...
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Neither speaker nor recipient: The middle-distance look of unaddressed participants Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Einav Argaman
This article studies the middle-distance look of ratified unaddressed participants and the way in which it is sequentially organized in relation to the discursive conducts of current speaker. An an...
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Argumentative strategies to evade state apologies: The Turkish example Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Yeliz Demir, Juliette Schaafsma
Countries are often reluctant to publicly recognize and express regret for past wrongdoings despite urgent pressures or calls to do so, and in the past decades there have been numerous examples of ...
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What’s in a frame, what’s in a name? Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Hank Johnston
This report reviews the development and organization of social movement research, the place frame analysis in the field, and its weak relationship with cognitive-linguistic approaches to frames and...
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Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of TED talks and YouTube science videos Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Edgar Bernad-Mechó, Julia Valeiras-Jurado
The growing interest on science dissemination offers new opportunities to communicate science openly to various audiences, but also brings on the challenge of adapting to an audience that does not ...
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Rethinking frame analysis ‘from the margins’: A decolonial-intersectional epistemology to studying immigrants’ rights claims Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Teresa M Cappiali
In this article, I explain how I use frame analysis in my research on immigrants’ rights claims in receiving society. My theoretical approach relies on two core aspects. First, I use a decolonial-i...
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Framing and social movements Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Manuela Caiani
This article explores the notion and method of discourse and frame analysis in social movement studies. Different cases of frame analysis applied to various types of social movements and contentiou...
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Where does the true value of a frame analysis approach lie? A Reply to van Dijk Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Tracey Skillington
This paper addresses arguments raised by van Dijk in his critical appraisal of framing approaches to social movement research. In particular, the claim that frame analysis does not give sufficient ...
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Sequence-initial pointing: Spotlighting what just happened as a cause of a new sequence Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Eiko Yasui
Drawing on microanalysis of interaction, this study examines the practice a pointing gesture accomplishes in initiating a new sequence in relation to what just happened when another line of interac...
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‘Pregnancy no bi disease’: Contextual beliefs in antenatal classes in selected Nigerian hospitals Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ezekiel Opeyemi Olajimbiti
This paper examines how language is used to show shared beliefs between caregivers and pregnant women in antenatal classes in the Nigerian context, which hitherto suffers neglect. The data consist ...
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Category relations and norms of feelings in children’s performances of a boyfriend-girlfriend culture Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Fredrik Andréasson, Ann-Carita Evaldsson
This study explores how preteen children in everyday interaction mobilize relationship categories to negotiate what counts as appropriate romantic feelings among peers. The analysis draws on ethnom...
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Asking for help without asking for help: How victims request and police offer assistance in cases of domestic violence when perpetrators are potentially co-present Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Elizabeth Stokoe, Emma Richardson
Requesting police assistance can be especially challenging in cases of domestic violence, since perpetrators may be able to overhear victims’ telephone calls. This means that callers may not be abl...
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What’s really in a frame? The case of public marriage proposals Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Using a small corpus of marriage proposal stories authored by British citizens, this paper aims to identify and make explicit seven defining parameters of frames (namely, default elements, default ...
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Analyzing frame analysis: A critical review of framing studies in social movement research Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Teun A van Dijk
This critical review of more than three decades of studies of frames and framing in Social Movement (SM) research first offers a brief history of the notion of ‘frame’ in various disciplines, and t...
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Multimodal media: Framing climate change Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Barbara Dancygier
The paper uses examples of multimodal discourse to show how frame analysis can account for the choices of form in a range of multimodal (image or image-plus-text) artifacts addressing issues of cli...
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An imperious, closed sandbox? A rejoinder to Van Dijk’s critique of the framing perspective on social movement mobilization Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 David A Snow, Rens Vliegenthart
In this article, we provide a response to Teun van Dijk’s criticism of the framing perspective on social movements, as expressed in his article ‘Analyzing Frame Analysis. A Critical Review of Frami...
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Framing and related concepts in interactional sociolinguistics Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen
This essay provides an overview of the study of framing in discourse as conducated in the field of interactional sociolinguistics. We review key theorizing on frames and related concepts such as fo...
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Frames, framing and framing effects in cognitive CDA Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Christopher Hart
In this paper I provide an account of frames, framing and framing effects from the perspective of cognitive linguistics as it is applied in critical discourse analysis. Frames, here, are understood...
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Frame semantic grammars: Where frame analysis meets linguistics to study collective action frames Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Stefania Vicari
After navigating conceptual and empirical developments in frame analysis research, I reflect on cornerstones and weaknesses in its elaboration of a rigorous analytical prism. In the reflection, I d...
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‘Go on keep going’: The instruction of sustained embodied activities Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Beatrice Szczepek Reed
This study investigates the instruction of sustained embodied activities, that is, activities that require a continuous, sustained embodied effort. The context is horse-riding lessons. Riding instr...
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Challenges in recognizing and facilitating disclosures of intimate partner violence in customer service calls about maintenance support Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Helena Tegler, Stina Fernqvist, Marie Flinkfeldt
Separated parents in Sweden need to sort out child maintenance themselves unless there are ‘special reasons’, such as experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), in which case the Swedish Socia...
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When a request turn is segmented: Managing the deontic authority via early compliance Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Satomi Kuroshima
By drawing on service encounter data in Japanese, this paper analyzes a previously undocumented request action initiated by a service provider to a client as a necessary step to provide the service...
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On the moral grounds of professional argumentative talk: English-mediated talk in Iranian PhD dissertation defences Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Ahmad Izadi
This paper reports on two anomalous cases of intervention in two English-medium dissertation defence sessions in Iran. The first is an intervention by a co-supervisor to take side against his co-su...
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The situated deployment of the Italian presentative (e) hai. . ., ‘(and) you have. . .’ within routinized multimodal Gestalts in route mapping with visually impaired climbers Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Monica Simone, Renata Galatolo
Drawing on video-recorded data from pre-climbing route mapping with visually impaired climbers and a sight guide, this study uses conversation analysis to investigate the situated deployment of the...
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Delineating categories in verbal interaction Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Jack Bilmes
The two purposes of this paper are to define the scope of the analytical concept of category and to consider the use of categories in talk. I start by discussing different ways that the concept of ...
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Ageism in job interviews: Discreet ways of building co-membership through age categorisation Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Federica Previtali, Pirjo Nikander, Johanna Ruusuvuori
This article investigates how age categorisation and prejudicial use of age are mobilised in talk by job applicants during job interviews and how recruiters affiliate with these. The institutional ...
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Recruiting repair: Making sense of interpreters’ embodied actions in a video-mediated environment Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen
This article examines interpreters’ embodied displays of trouble in hospital encounters in Norway. In these meetings, participants speak different languages, and the interpreters, that is multiling...
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On granularity of doing other-initiation: Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning is X’ in Mandarin Chinese Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Hui Guo, Guodong Yu
This study examines Nǐ yìsi shì X ‘Your Meaning is X’ as a practice of doing other-initiation in Mandarin conversations, focusing on how it addresses different sources of troubles systematically in...
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Sexual consent as an interactional achievement: Overcoming ambiguities and social vulnerabilities in the initiations of sexual activities Discourse Studies (IF 1.871) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Simon Magnusson, Melisa Stevanovic
Sexual consent is advocated around the world to reduce sexual assault. The widespread affirmative consent model emphasizes a need for unambiguous consent. In this paper, we contribute to a deeper u...