Joyce2022a

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Joyce2022a
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Key Joyce2022a
Author(s) Jack B. Joyce
Title Resistance in public disputes: Third-turn blocking to suspend progressivity
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Tag(s) EMCA, Disputes, Conflict-talk, Resistance, Conversation Analysis, Membership Categorization Analysis, English
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc.
Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 24
Number 2
Pages 231-248
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14614456221090303
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Abstract

When people argue they routinely challenge the opinions, views, and attitudes of one another, they seek to cast the other as the aggressor or party at fault, and otherwise exert social control. This article illustrates how members work to hamper challenges, evade control or avoid being negatively characterized by systematically blocking access to a turn in the third position and stopping their opponent’s agenda. Examining 100 hours of public disputes (public transport, protestor interactions and radio call-ins) in varieties of English, I use membership categorization analysis and conversation analysis to unpack resistance as part of the structural organization of disputes. I identify two methods of resisting an agenda: (1) passively, whereby a responsive turn stalls the progressivity of the interaction, and (2) actively, whereby a responsive turn disaligns to outrightly suspend the progressivity of the interaction. I discuss how resistance sequentially unfolds across sequential positions, and as an interactional phenomenon which solves the trouble of a challenge. Overall, this article contributes to social interaction research on resistance, public disputes and how social order is constituted in and through talk-in-interaction.

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