Koskinen2021

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Koskinen2021
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Key Koskinen2021
Author(s) Emmi Koskinen, Melisa Stevanovic, Anssi Peräkylä
Title The Recognition and Interactional Management of Face Threats: Comparing Neurotypical Participants and Participants with Asperger's Syndrome
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Tag(s) EMCA, autism spectrum disorder, facework, self, storytelling, social interaction
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Year 2021
Language English
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Journal Social Psychology Quarterly
Volume 84
Number 2
Pages 132-154
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725211003023
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Abstract

Erving Goffman has argued that the threat of losing one's face is an omnirelevant concern that penetrates all actions in encounters. However, studies have shown that compared with neurotypical individuals, persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can be less preoccupied with how others perceive them and thus possibly less concerned of face in interaction. Drawing on a data set of Finnish quasinatural conversations, we use the means of conversation analysis to compare the practices of facework in storytelling sequences involving neurotypical (NT) participants and participants diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (AS). We found differences in the ways in which the AS and NT participants in our data managed face threats in interaction, where they spontaneously assumed the roles of both storytellers and story recipients. We discuss our findings in relation to theories of self in interaction, with an aim to illuminate both typical and atypical interactional practices of facework.

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