Yu2021
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Yu2021 |
| Author(s) | Guodong Yu, Yaxin Wu |
| Title | Managing expert/novice identity with actions in conversation: Identity construction & negotiation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Identity construction, Identity status, Identity stance, Social action, Conversation analysis |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 178 |
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| Pages | 273-286 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.03.021 |
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Abstract
Interactants as social members possess many an identity in their social life, but identities should not be assumed as priori to an interaction, instead, they should be understood as being constructed by interactants with social actions in talk-in-interaction or as the outcome of participants' orientation and negotiation. Taking epistemics and deontics into consideration offers us a pathway to probe into interactants' identity construction by analysing the social actions that they accomplish in and through their turns-at-talk. As a single case study of a telephone call between two acquaintances, the present research reveals the moment-by-moment emergence of the identity of expert and that of novice. Specifically, the novice's requesting for information, explicit advice seeking, and troubles telling are unanimously responded to by the expert with solicited and unsolicited advice giving, though the expert also offers solution, makes assessment and so on in this telephone call. This division instantiates the asymmetrical possession of knowledge, displays different deontic authority, and constructs contrasting identities. Furthermore, the (in)congruence between identity status and stance is also investigated to reveal how identity is constructed, negotiated and even rebutted in talk-in-interaction and to reveal the interactants' calibration of the relationship between identity status and identity stance.
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