Reynolds2011

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Reynolds2011
BibType ARTICLE
Key Reynolds2011
Author(s) Edward Reynolds
Title Enticing a challengeable in arguments: sequence, epistemics and preference organisation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Questions, Arguments, Conflict, Epistemics, Conversation Analysis, Argument
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Year 2011
Language English
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Journal Pragmatics
Volume 21
Number 3
Pages 411–430
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DOI 10.1075/prag.21.3.06rey
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Abstract

This article reports on an interactional practice found in one form of adversarial talk, arguments during protests, where participants work to ‘entice’ a particular answer from an opponent using an uncontroversial questions in order to challenge the opponent on the basis of their own answer. Based on a collection of arguments during protests posted to YouTube, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) in order to investigate the way in which participants employ these uncontroversial questions as ‘pre-challenges’, using speaker selection, recipient focused topics and a moral ordering of talk to work to obligate a particular answer from the recipient. The results of the analysis illustrate several ways in which participants manipulate epistemics, speaker selection, and recipient design as resources for enacting social conflict.

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