Flint-etal2019

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Flint-etal2019
BibType ARTICLE
Key Flint-etal2019
Author(s) Natalie Flint, Michael Haugh, Andrew John Merrison
Title Modulating troubles afliating in initial interactions: The role of remedial accounts
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Tag(s) EMCA, getting acquainted, disafliation, accounts, facework, conversation analysis, interactional pragmatics
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Pragmatics
Volume 29
Number 3
Pages 384–409
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DOI 10.1075/prag.17010.fli
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Abstract

Much of the research on affiliation to date has focused on how people do (dis)affiliation. This paper explores the remedial work that follows instances of disaffiliation between interactants who are getting acquainted. Building on an interactional pragmatics analytical approach informed by methods and research in conversation analysis, findings indicate that extended remedial accounts recurrently follow moments of disaffiliation in initial interactions. These remedial accounts enable participants to reposition a prior disaffiliative stance as (ostensibly) affiliative. It appears in initial interactions, then, that remedial accounts play an important role in modulating troubles in affiliating. We propose that the considerable interactional work undertaken by these participants to modulate such troubles reflects a general preference for agreeability in initial interactions, at least amongst (Australian and British) speakers of English.

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