Reynolds2011
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Reynolds2011 |
Author(s) | Edward Reynolds |
Title | Enticing a challengeable in arguments: sequence, epistemics and preference organisation |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Questions, Arguments, Conflict, Epistemics, Conversation Analysis, Argument |
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Year | 2011 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Pragmatics |
Volume | 21 |
Number | 3 |
Pages | 411–430 |
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DOI | 10.1075/prag.21.3.06rey |
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Abstract
This article reports on an interactional practice found in one form of adversarial talk, arguments during protests, where participants work to ‘entice’ a particular answer from an opponent using an uncontroversial questions in order to challenge the opponent on the basis of their own answer. Based on a collection of arguments during protests posted to YouTube, this article uses conversation analysis (CA) in order to investigate the way in which participants employ these uncontroversial questions as ‘pre-challenges’, using speaker selection, recipient focused topics and a moral ordering of talk to work to obligate a particular answer from the recipient. The results of the analysis illustrate several ways in which participants manipulate epistemics, speaker selection, and recipient design as resources for enacting social conflict.
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