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  1. ‘I (don’t) want X/y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in Chinese Mediation Resources.Xianbing Ke - 2022 - Discourse Studies 24 (5):590-611.
    The recurrent court-related mediation discourse studies have focused on mediation participants’ willingness. Drawing on a corpus of five situated recorded court-related civil mediation data in China, this article takes one of the frequently-used mediation resources ‘I don’t want X/y’ as a case study of formulating mediation ‘wants’. It is intended to explore mediation participants’ exploitation of the court-related mediation resources to express their mediation willingness/ intentions: how the mediator manipulates either side of the participants’ mediation discursive concepts; how the mediator (...)
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  • The right measure of guilt: Moral reasoning, transgression and the social construction of moral meanings.Cristian Tileagă - 2012 - Discourse and Communication 6 (2):203-222.
    Using a discursive and ethnomethodological analytic framework, this article explores the social construction of moral transgression and moral meanings in the context of coming to terms with the recent communist past in Eastern Europe. This article illustrates some significant aspects of everyday uses of morality and the socio-communicative organization of public judgements on moral transgression. The article considers the range of public reactions and commentaries to a public confession of having been an informer for the former Romanian secret police. Moral (...)
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  • `Did you have permission to smash your neighbour's door?' Silly questions and their answers in police—suspect interrogations.Derek Edwards & Elizabeth Stokoe - 2008 - Discourse Studies 10 (1):89-111.
    We examine the asking and answering of `silly questions' in British police interviews with suspects, the courses of action SQs initiate, and the institutional contingencies they are designed to manage. We show how SQs are asked at an important juncture toward the ends of interviews, following police officers' formulations of suspects' testimony. These formulations are confirmed or even collaboratively produced by suspects. We then examine the design of SQs and show how they play a central role in the articulation of (...)
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  • ‘Let me tell you about myself ’: A method for suppressing subject talk in a ‘soft accusation’ interrogation.Esther González Martínez & Mardi Kidwell - 2010 - Discourse Studies 12 (1):65-89.
    This article describes interactional features of an interrogation method that is used by law enforcement and private security companies in the US known as the ‘soft accusation’ method. We demonstrate how the method, in contrast to the more common ‘story solicitation’ method, makes use of a ‘telling about oneself ’ activity to actually suppress a subject’s talk by setting up and maintaining an exceptionally long turn by the interrogator. This turn not only constrains subjects’ speaking contributions to the issuing of (...)
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  • ‘I’m not X, I just want Y’: Formulating ‘wants’ in interaction.Carrie Childs - 2012 - Discourse Studies 14 (2):181-196.
    This article provides a conversation analytic description of a two-part structure, ‘I don’t want X, I want/just want Y’. Drawing on a corpus of recordings of family mealtimes and television documentary data, I show how speakers use the structure in two recurrent environments. First, speakers may use the structure to reject a proposal regarding their actions made by an interlocutor. Second, speakers may deliver the structure following a co-interactant’s formulation of their actions or motivations. Both uses decrease the likelihood of (...)
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  • Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis.Elizabeth Stokoe - 2012 - Discourse Studies 14 (3):277-303.
    This article has four aims. First, it will consider explicitly, and polemically, the hierarchical relationship between conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis. Whilst the CA ‘juggernaut’ flourishes, the MCA ‘milk float’ is in danger of being run off the road. For MCA to survive either as a separate discipline, or within CA as a focus equivalent to other ‘generic orders of conversation’, I suggest it must generate new types of systematic studies and reveal fundamental categorial practices. With such a goal (...)
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  • Formulating dispositions in coming out advice.Deborah A. Chirrey - 2011 - Discourse Studies 13 (3):283-298.
    This article considers the advice found on six internet sites written for people who are considering coming out. The article uses Edwards’ script formulation theory to examine how the grammatical choices by the writers formulate the dispositions of the main actors in the texts: the advice seeker, LGB individuals, and the people to whom they come out. The writers’ formulations are shaped by a view of coming out as the act of a reasonable, emotionally healthy, moral and loving lesbian, gay (...)
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  • Cautious morality: Public accountability, moral order and accounting for a conflict of interest.Cristian Tileagă - 2010 - Discourse Studies 12 (2):223-239.
    This article draws upon discursive psychology to explore the organization of public accountability in accounting for an alleged conflict of interest in journalism. The analysis focuses on the published record of an interview given by the editorial director of one of the major Romanian daily newspapers on the issue of an assumed conflict of interest involving a senior editor of the same newspaper. The analysis shows how a moral order is constituted by the use of various discursive resources: role and (...)
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  • Withholding consent : How citizens resist expert responses by positioning themselves as ‘the ones to be convinced’.Lotte van Burgsteden & Hedwig te Molder - 2021 - Pragmatics and Society 12 (4):669-695.
    This paper examines public meetings in the Netherlands where experts and officials interact with local residents on the human health effects of livestock farming. Using Conversation Analysis, we reveal a ‘weapon of the weak’: a practice by which the residents resist experts’ head start in information meetings. It is shown how residents draw on the given question-answer format to challenge experts and pursue an admission of, for example, methodological shortcomings. We show how the residents’ first question functions as a ‘foot-in-the-door’, (...)
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  • ‘Calm down!’: the role of gaze in the interactional management of hysteria by the police.Mardi Kidwell - 2006 - Discourse Studies 8 (6):745-770.
    Gaze is a central mechanism for the entry into and coordination of face-to-face interaction. As such, persistent and sustained gaze withdrawal may indicate significant troubles in an interaction. This article examines how two police officers, in seeking to calm a hysterical woman whose grandson has been shot, treat her refusal to gaze at them as a central component of her persisting hysteria. Toward the end of getting the woman to calm down, one officer seeks her return gaze using embedded and (...)
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