SzczepekReed2014
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| Author(s) | Beatrice Szczepek Reed |
| Title | Prosodic, lexical and sequential cues for assessments with German süß: assemblages for action and public commitment |
| Editor(s) | Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Beatrice Szczepek Reed |
| Tag(s) | Prosody, Sequential Analysis |
| Publisher | Verlag für Gesprächsforschung |
| Year | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| City | Mannheim |
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| Pages | 162–186 |
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| Book title | Prosodie und Phonetik in der Interaktion / Prosody and Phonetics in Interaction |
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Abstract
This paper shows how conversationalists assemble lexical, prosodic, and sequential cues to accomplish social actions and commitment to a stance. The assemblage [süß + prosodic stylization + freestanding turn design] is used as a practice to implement positive and highly affiliative assessments of child-like agents. Participants use the same form of assessment to mitigate complaints about adult referents, and to assign non-membership to referents from different membership categories. While the assemblage in its general form remains constant, the specifics of the prosodic stylization show a considerable degree of flexibility. Consequently, the paper argues that the interactionally most relevant aspect of prosodic stylization is that it is notably different from surrounding talk, rather than how precisely it is different. The analysis shows that social actions are not accomplished or contextualized by individual cues, but by assemblages, which emerge online and have to be defined with the necessary flexibility to fit the nature of spontaneous talk.
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