Greer2021

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Greer2021
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Greer2021
Author(s) Tim Greer, Yosuke Ogawa
Title Managing Peripheral Recipiency in Triadic Multilingual Storytelling
Editor(s) Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring
Tag(s) EMCA, Storytelling
Publisher Routledge
Year 2021
Language English
City New York
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Pages 55–81
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DOI 10.4324/9780429029240-6
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Howpublished
Book title Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
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Abstract

Speaker selection and recipiency are more complicated when a story is told between three or more people (as opposed to those told by a speaker with just one recipient). This chapter draws on conversation analysis to examine naturally occurring triadic L2 (Japanese/English) interaction recorded in a hairdressing setting between a client, a stylist, and an assistant who is observing the cut. The focus is on third-person repair in story-implicative sequences in which the peripheral hairdresser momentarily self-selects in order to clarify, interpret or explain some aspect of the telling. The analysis suggests that the peripheral interactant can play a significant mediatory role in maintaining intersubjectivity. The teller-recipient constellation can shift rapidly when the mediating participant receipts the telling on behalf of the person who initiated it or when a telling-initiation addressed to the primary speaker is taken up instead by the peripheral participant due to a delayed response. The chapter offers insight into how L2 interaction is managed beyond the classroom and extends CA scholarship on the fluidity of recipiency in storytelling sequences.

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