Gibson2021
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Gibson2021 |
Author(s) | David R. Gibson |
Title | Repetition Acknowledgment Prefaces |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Goffman, Repetition, Prefaces |
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Year | 2021 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Symbolic Interaction |
Volume | 44 |
Number | 4 |
Pages | 819–842 |
URL | Link |
DOI | 10.1002/symb.531 |
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Abstract
I consider a particularly puzzling conversational phenomenon: the repetition acknowledgment preface, or RAP, which consists of a brief reference to an earlier telling of a story, or topic of conversation, prior to its repetition (e.g., I was just telling John…). Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, in particular, and a collection of carefully documented empirical episodes, I identify eleven functions RAPs may serve (intentionally or unintentionally), the circumstantial preconditions for each, and the extent to which RAPs are well‐suited for it, conjecturing that well‐suitedness is a clue to RAPs' original purpose.
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