Houtkoop-Steenstra1994
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Houtkoop-Steenstra1994 |
| Author(s) | Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra |
| Title | De interactionele functie van zacht spreken in interviews. |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Speaking softly, Interview talk |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Language | Dutch |
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| Journal | Gramma/TTT, Tijdschrift voor Taalkunde |
| Volume | 3 |
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| Pages | 183-202 |
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Abstract
This article discusses the interactional function of speaking softly in research interviews. Firstly, low volume plays a role in the organization of turn-taking and the negotiations about the participants' conversational roles. Speakers use low volume to display their preparedness to give up the floor and recipients and recipients to display their continued passive recipientship. Secondly, speaking softly is also used as a design to mark a temporary time-out of the interaction. When an interviewer or a respondent is temporarily involved in some non-interactional action, he or she tends to accompany such an action by softly spoken talk that displays what he or she is doing: recollecting, writing, leafing through the questionair, and the like.
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The interactional function of speaking softly in interviews
