Research on Language and Social Interaction

Volume 56, Issues 1-2

Research on Language and Social Interaction（SSCI一区，2022 IF：2.7，排名：28/194）2023年第1-2期共发文8篇。2023年第1期共发文4篇，均为研究性论文，涉及情绪疗法的会话特征、人格障碍诊断过程的会话分析、行为规则、亲子互动的言语序列等；2023年第2期共发文4篇，均为研究性论文，涉及韵律分析、丹麦语的互动话语研究、希伯来语的知识传递方式等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

Issue 1

■ Responding to In-the-Moment Distress in Emotion-Focused Therapy, by Peter Muntigl, Lynda Chubak & Lynne Angus, Pages 1-21 

■ Anticipation and Delivery of a Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Psychiatry, by Liisa Voutilainen & Anssi Peräkylä, Pages 22-41 

■Enforcing Rules During Play: Knowledge, Agency, and the Design of Instructions and Reminders, by Laurenz Kornfeld & Giovanni Rossi, Pages 42-64

■ Sequence Facilitation: Grandparents Engineering Parent–Child Interactions in Video Calls， by Yumei Gan, Christian Greiffenhagen & Kobin H. Kendrick, Pages 65-88

Issue 2

■ Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design, by Beatrice Szczepek Reed, Pages 89-115 

■ Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction: From Action Formation to Grammatical Description, by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen  & Søren Sandager Sørensen, Pages 116-140 

■Shared Knowledge as an Account for Disaffiliative Moves: Hebrew ki ‘Because’-Clauses Accompanied by the Palm-Up Open-Hand Gesture, by Anna Inbar & Yael Maschler, Pages 141-164

■ Audible Inhalation as a Practice for Mitigating Systemic Turn-Taking Troubles: A Conjecture, by Jeffrey D. Robinson, Pages 165-190

摘要

Responding to In-the-Moment Distress in Emotion-Focused Therapy

Peter Muntig, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Ghent University, Belgium; Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Lynda Chubak & Lynne Angus

Abstract

Emotion-focused therapy offers a setting in which clients report on their personal experiences, some of which involve intense moments of distress. This article examines video-recorded interactional sequences of client distress displays and therapist responses. Two main findings extend understanding of embodied actions clients display as both a collection of distress features and as interactional resources therapists draw upon to facilitate therapeutic intervention. First, clients drew from a number of vocal and nonvocal resources that tend to cluster on a continuum of lower or higher intensities of upset displays. Second, we identified three therapist response types that oriented explicitly to clients’ in-the-moment distress: noticings, emotional immediacy questions, and modulating directives. The first two action types draw attention to or topicalize the client’s emotional display; the third type, by contrast, had a regulatory function, either sustaining or abating the intensity of the upset. Data are in North American English.

Anticipation and Delivery of a Personality Disorder Diagnosis in Psychiatry

Liisa Voutilainen & Anssi Peräkylä, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

A personality disorder (PD) diagnosis can be considered by a patient to be stigmatizing. This presents interactional challenges for the clinician who makes the diagnosis and communicates it to the patient.Through an analysis of video-recorded clinical interviews of PD patients, we explore the anticipation and delivery of the diagnosis in psychiatry. The method of the study is conversation analysis (CA). The diagnostic evaluation process of each patient extends over a number of clinical interviews. At the beginning of the process, the clinicians speak about the personality disorder diagnosis in an anticipatory manner. At the end of the process, they eventually communicate it to the patients. This analysis focuses on the interactional practices used by psychiatrists to help a patient “save face” when mentioning the (prospective) diagnosis. We demonstrate that both the avoidance and corrective practices of face work occur in the data. Even with these prartices, the delivery of the diagnosis to the patent can lead to conflict. We conclude that, in extended diagnostic evaluation processes, the preparatory work by the clinician is important to secure patient participation.The data for this analysis are in Finnish.

Enforcing Rules During Play: Knowledge, Agency, and the Design of Instructions and Reminders

Laurenz Kornfeld, Pragmatics Department, Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Germany

Giovanni Rossi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Abstract Rules of behavior are fundamental to human sociality. Whether on the road, at the dinner table, or during a game, people monitor one another’s behavior for conformity to rules and may take action to rectify violations. In this study, we examine two ways in which rules are enforced during games: instructions and reminders. Building on prior research, we identify instructions as actions produced to rectify violations based on another’s lack of knowledge of the relevant rule; knowledge that the instruction is designed to impart. In contrast to this, the actions we refer to as reminders are designed to enforce rules presupposing the transgressor’s competence and treating the violation as the result of forgetfulness or oversight. We show that instructing and reminding actions differ in turn design, sequential development, the epistemic stances taken by transgressors and enforcers, and in how the action affects the progressivity of the interaction. Data are in German and Italian from the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECII).

Sequence Facilitation: Grandparents Engineering Parent–Child Interactions in Video Calls

Yumei Gan, School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Christian Greiffenhagen & Kobin H. Kendrick

Abstract Completing a sequence of actions is a basic problem of social organization for participants. When a first pair-part is addressed to a not yet fully competent member, such as a young child, a third party can facilitate the completion of the sequence through diverse linguistic, embodied, and material practices. In this article, we examine such sequence facilitation in a perspicuous setting: grandparent-mediated video calls between migrant parents and their left-behind children in China. The analysis shows that the practices of sequence facilitation can have a retrospective or prospective orientation and involve not only linguistic practices, such as repeating the parent’s first pair-part or formulating its action, but also embodied and material practices, such as positioning the camera or physically animating the child’s body. The results shed light on the organization of adjacency pairs in adult–child interactions and the embodied and material circumstances of their production in video-mediated communication. The data were in the Chinese dialects of Sichuan and Guizhou.

Designing Talk for Humans and Horses: Prosody as a Resource for Parallel Recipient Design

Beatrice Szczepek Reed, School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London, UK

Abstract This analysis shows how, in horse-riding lessons, riding instructors use prosody and other sound patterns to design their talk for human and equine recipients at the same time, while orienting to distinct contributions from each. Practices for doing so include nonlexical vocalizations, marked prosodic delivery, and conventionalized lexical-prosodic bundles. Parallel recipient design allows turn-holders to pursue a single activity that is to be performed jointly by the recipient pair. Parallel recipient design is shown to be distinct from alternating recipient design, to be found during multiactivity. Parallel recipient design can be delivered consecutively, with talk designed to mobilize the rider followed by talk designed to mobilize the horse; or simultaneously, with lexical items performing one action to the rider and their prosodic delivery performing another action to the horse. The data are recordings of naturally occurring horse-riding lessons, mostly in English; some data are in German, with English translations.

Toward a Grammar of Danish Talk-in-Interaction: From Action Formation to Grammatical Description

Jakob Steensig, Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark

Maria Jørgensen, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen

Abstract

Is it possible to develop a comprehensive grammar of talk-in-interaction for a specific language based on descriptions of social actions? This is the question we will try to answer in this article. The article is based on the work of the project The Grammar in Everyday Life, which aims to build a systematic grammatical description of Danish talk-in-interaction based on descriptions of social action formats within three domains: question–answer sequences, commissive–directive sequences, and the negotiation of participation during longer spates of talk. Our ambition is to build a grammar that takes into consideration how talk is used in the real-time unfolding of interaction to do actions and to negotiate relationships. Through a presentation of three formats, we discuss how a grammatical description can be organized, how granular it should be, if and how traditional grammatical categories can be used, and how prosodic and embodied features could be included. Data are in Danish.

Shared Knowledge as an Account for Disaffiliative Moves: Hebrew ki ‘Because’-Clauses Accompanied by the Palm-Up Open-Hand Gesture

Anna Inbar & Yael Maschler, University of Haifa, Israel

Abstract Exploring the grammar–body interface, the present study examines employment of Hebrew causal clauses prefaced by the conjunction ki “because” in responsive disaffiliative moves. We show that in such environments, ki-clauses tend to convey information that appeals to the participants’ shared knowledge and to be accompanied by the Palm Up Open Hand gesture (PUOH). We argue that the PUOH in such contexts constitutes an embodied epistemic stance marker functioning to present the account prefaced by ki as based on shared knowledge, in pursuit of intersubjectivity and a shared perspective. The reference to shared epistemic access implies an interpretation of the disaffiliative move as reasonable under the circumstances provided by the account, inviting co-participants to display affiliation. The study thus validates that causality is a socially constructed, complex configuration that may include the speaker’s epistemic stance toward the actions accomplished in an interaction and suggests an interactional source for their interrelatedness. Data are in Hebrew

Audible Inhalation as a Practice for Mitigating Systemic Turn-Taking Troubles: A Conjecture

Jeffrey D. Robinson, Department of Communication, Portland State University

Abstract Extending Jefferson’s analysis of the limited utility of turn-constructional-unit (TCU)-initial particles in managing overlapping talk, this article limits itself to a similar turn-taking context/position in which current speakers bring TCUs to places of possible completion when it is relevant for next speakers to take a turn of talk. This article examines situations in which current speakers continue to audibly inhale in the transition space, arguing that inhalations (a) are pre-beginning actions; (b) bestow a weaker right to speak next than does talk; (c) are not accountable for obscuring next speakers’ talk (if it eventuates); (d) allow for beginning TCUs while monitoring for next speakers’ talk, thereby allowing inhalers to proceed contingently based on next speakers’ unfolding conduct; and (e) are used to mitigate the systemic turn-taking troubles of “no person speaking at a time” and “more than one person speaking at a time.” Data are videotapes of mundane, dyadic, American English conversation.

期刊简介

Research on Language and Social Interaction publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction. Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology, and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers.

《语言与社会互动研究》出版高质量关于互动使用语言的实证和理论研究。主要研究领域为交际、语篇分析、会话分析、人类语言学和民族学，但也欢迎来自更广泛的关于互动的研究者投稿。

Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.

本刊文章通常涉及自然发生的交际互动分析。本刊也同样欢迎与自然观察密切相关的定性和定量研究。

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