Korobov2016
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Korobov2016 |
Author(s) | Neill Korobov |
Title | A discourse analytic approach to accusations of infidelity in romantic couples' natural conversations |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Infdelity, Accusations, Discourse Analysis, Romantic Relationships, Afliation |
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Year | 2016 |
Language | English |
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Journal | The Qualitative Report |
Volume | 21 |
Number | 7 |
Pages | 1266-1287 |
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Abstract
Tis study uses a discourse analytic approach to examine how twenty young adult heterosexual romantic couples (ages 19-26) formulate accusations and insinuations of infdelity in their unstructured natural conversations. Te analyses demonstrate how accusations of infdelity among romantic partners work to pursue and avert relational trouble. Tey indirectly index local interactional breaches that may, if left unatended, lead to non-afliative interactional outcomes. Unlike mainstream psychological work that would treat talk about infdelity as a sign of emotional insecurity or jealousy, the present study posits that accusations of infdelity may function as a brief but efective way for one partner to signal that they have been dismissed or neglected in the preceding discursive turns, and to indirectly invite the other to repair that. Inductive sequential discursive analyses specifcally found a reoccurring 5-part sequential patern in the interactional environment surrounding spontaneous accusations of infdelity. Tis study demonstrates that the ways romantic partners afliate around quotidian accusations of infdelity is not random, but instead can refect an ordered cultural patern to the ways couples work to maintain a close relationship.
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