Pillet-Shore2012a

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Pillet-Shore2012a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Pillet-Shore2012a
Author(s) Danielle Pillet-Shore
Title Greeting: Displaying stance through prosodic recipient design
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Tag(s) EMCA, Stance Taking, Greeting, Prosody, Recipient Design
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Year 2012
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 45
Number 4
Pages 375–398
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2012.724994
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Abstract

This article examines the social action of greeting in naturally occurring face-to-face interaction, paying special attention to how people prosodically produce their very first vocalized utterances. Close analysis of a corpus of 337 video recorded openings shows that participants recipient design greetings on the level of prosody, tailoring them to each addressee and thus hearably displaying a stance toward the current state and character of their social relationship. Documenting the discovery of a prosodic continuum along which parties fine-tune their greetings, this article elucidates two distinct clusters of prosodic features with which participants recurrently design their greetings. Analysis demonstrates that parties use each prosodic cluster to display a different stance toward encountering the addressed recipient, with prosodically “large” greetings displaying a positive stance of approval and prosodically “small” greetings displaying (no more than) a neutral stance.

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