Schegloff1988b

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Schegloff1988b
BibType ARTICLE
Key Schegloff1988b
Author(s) Emanuel A. Schegloff
Title On an actual virtual servo-mechanism for guessing bad news: a single case conjecture
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Tag(s) EMCA, News receipts, Affiliation, Allusion
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Year 1988
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Journal Social Problems
Volume 35
Number 4
Pages 442–457
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DOI 10.2307/800596
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Abstract

A conversation analytic treatment of a single episode of talk-in-interaction is used to sketch a mechanism for steering recipients of bad news to better guesses of what the news is. The account of the mechanism makes use of the notion of “preferred/dispreferred response” and distinguishes different usages of that notion. The results of the exploration are used to recommend an approach to specialized contexts in which bad news is communicated, as well as an approach to “specialized” talk more generally.

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