Waring2007a

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Waring2007a
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Key Waring2007a
Author(s) Hansun Zhang Waring
Title The multi-functionality of accounts in advice giving
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Tag(s) EMCA, Accounts, advice giving, conversation analysis, face threats, managing resistance
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Year 2007
Language English
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Journal Journal of Sociolinguistics
Volume 11
Number 3
Pages 367–391
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DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00328.x
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Abstract

Accounts have traditionally been understood as explanations designed to exonerate the speaker from an untoward act (e.g. account for lateness) (Scott and Lyman 1968). In this paper, I examine the use of accounts in advice giving, adopting a broader view of accounts as the reasoning provided to bolster the viability of the advice. The data set consists of 15 graduate peer tutoring sessions and a total of 143 advising sequences collected over a period of four years. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, I show that besides their remedial utility of ‘repairing the broken,’ accounts can also be used proactively to validate and promote a current agenda. In particular, I argue for the multi-functionality of accounts in addressing face threats, managing resistance, and doing pedagogy

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