Gibson2021

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Gibson2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Gibson2021
Author(s) David R. Gibson
Title Repetition Acknowledgment Prefaces
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Tag(s) EMCA, Goffman, Repetition, Prefaces
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal Symbolic Interaction
Volume 44
Number 4
Pages 819–842
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DOI 10.1002/symb.531
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Abstract

I consider a particularly puzzling conversational phenomenon: the repetition acknowledgment preface, or RAP, which consists of a brief reference to an earlier telling of a story, or topic of conversation, prior to its repetition (e.g., I was just telling John…). Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, in particular, and a collection of carefully documented empirical episodes, I identify eleven functions RAPs may serve (intentionally or unintentionally), the circumstantial preconditions for each, and the extent to which RAPs are well‐suited for it, conjecturing that well‐suitedness is a clue to RAPs' original purpose.

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