Hutchby1992
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Ian Hutchby |
| Title | Confrontation talk: Aspects of interruption in argument sequences on talk radio |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Interruptions, Argument, Talk Radio, Confrontation |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Journal | Text |
| Volume | 12 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 343–371 |
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| DOI | 10.1515/text.1.1992.12.3.343 |
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Abstract
Recognition of the status of 'interruption' as a members' evaluative construct, rather than as merely a subclass of speech overlap, is the basis for an investigation of the ways in which doing 'interrupting' and 'being interrupted' are ways members have of framing up a spate of talk as confrontational. The use of interruption is examined in bouts of confrontation talk found in argument sequences produced in a specialised cultural setting — the 'talk radio' broadcast — with three main results. First, both sequential and moral dimensions of 'interrupting' on the pari of parties to an argument are shown to be closely bound up with the hearably confrontational character of given spates of disputatious talk. Second, resistance strategies are located which show that interruption is by no means definitively disruptive of a speaker's topical line. And third, institutionally-grounded ways of using interruption as a way of doing 'being in control' of a disputatious exchange are isolated and discussed.
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