Stivers-Hayashi2010
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Stivers-Hayashi2010 |
Author(s) | Tanya Stivers, Makoto Hayashi |
Title | Transformative answers: One way to resist a question’s constraints |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, social interaction, alignment, affiliation, Japanese, evasion |
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Year | 2010 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Language in Society |
Volume | 39 |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 1-25 |
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DOI | 10.1017/S0047404509990637 |
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Abstract
A number of Conversation Analytic studies have documented that question recipients have a variety of ways to push against the constraints that questions impose on them. This article explores the concept of transformative answers – answers through which question recipients retroactively adjust the question posed to them. Two main sorts of adjustments are discussed: question term transformations and question agenda transformations. It is shown that the operations through which interactants implement term transformations are different from the operations through which they implement agenda trans- formations. Moreover, term-transforming answers resist only the question’s design, while agenda-transforming answers effectively resist both design and agenda, thus implying that agenda-transforming answers resist more strongly than design-transforming answers. The implications of these different sorts of transformations for alignment and affi liation are then explored.
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