Affectivity in Interaction
Sound objects in English
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2012
IX, 281 pages
978-90-272-8165-4 (ISBN)
Description
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and paralinguistic signals (whistle and clicks), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactional activities including news telling, troubles talk, complaining, assessments and repair, the study provides evidence that the sound pattern and sequential placement of sound objects systematically contribute to their specific meaning-making in interaction, i.e. the management of sequence organisation and interactional relevancies (e.g. affiliation). Presenting an in-depth analysis of a little researched area of language use from an interactional linguistic perspective, the book will be of theoretical and methodological interest to an audience with a background in linguistics, sociology and conversational studies.
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- Affectivity in Interaction
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction
- General interest and scope of study
- Some remarks on methodology
- Outline of the analysis
- Part II. Background
- 1. Preliminaries: Affectivity and sound objects in an interactional linguistic perspective
- 1.1 Interactional Linguistics
- 1.2 Conversation Analysis
- 1.2.1 The turn-taking system
- 1.2.2 A participant's perspective
- 1.2.3 Conversation Analysis and affectivity.
- 1.3 Contextualisation Theory
- 1.4 Summary and conclusions
- 2 Approaching sound objects: Previous research on interjections, discourse markers and vocalisations
- 2.1 Interjections - what are they?
- 2.2 Vocalisations in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
- 2.2.1 Foundational studies
- 2.2.2 Major findings and assumptions
- 2.2.3 Communicative "paralinguistic" sounds
- 2.3 Summary and conclusions
- 3. Approaching affectivity in talk-in-interaction I: Previous research on prosody
- 3.1 Preliminaries: Prosody-in-conversation
- 3.2 Prosody and affectivity in conversation
- 3.2.1 The non-affect phonetics approach
- 3.2.2 Prosody as a contextualisation device for affectivity
- 3.2.3 Summary and conclusions
- 4. Approaching affectivity in talk-in-interaction II: Previous research on conversational activities
- 4.1 Common findings and assumptions
- 4.2 Sequences and practices
- 4.2.1 Troubles talk
- 4.2.2 News delivery sequences
- 4.2.3 Complaint sequences
- 4.2.4 Assessments
- 4.2.5 Repair
- 4.3 Summary and conclusions
- Part III. An analysis of responsive affect-laden sound objects in talk-in-interaction
- 5. Affectivity and sound objects: An interactional linguistic perspective
- 5.1 Data and transcription
- 5.2 The methodological approach of the present study
- 6. Affect-laden oh in repair sequences and news tellings
- 6.1 Previous accounts in the literature: Oh in English
- 6.1.1 English oh in dictionaries
- 6.1.2 English oh in interactional studies
- 6.2 'Surprise' in talk-in-interaction
- 6.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of 'extra high and pointed' oh
- 6.4 Affect-laden oh in response to repair
- 6.4.1 Oh as a repair receipt + turn expansion
- 6.4.2 Oh as a repair receipt + subsequent other-speaker talk
- 6.4.3 The rise-fall revisited: 'Surprise', a matter of degree
- 6.5 Affect-laden oh in response to news
- 6.5.1 Oh as a news response + turn expansion
- 6.5.2 Oh as a news response + subsequent other-speaker talk
- 6.6 Interactional pay-off of 'extra high and pointed' oh: Is 'surprise' a full-fledged emotion?
- 6.7 Summary and conclusions
- 7. Affect-laden oohs in radio phone-ins and in mundane complaint sequences/troubles talk
- 7.1 Previous accounts of ooh in dictionaries
- 7.2 Extreme and dramatic affect displays in talk-in-interaction
- 7.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ooh
- 7.4 'High and pointed' ooh + turn expansion as an affect-laden response to unqualified, positive ass
- 7.5 'Midrange' ooh + turn expansion in response to repair
- 7.6 Global sequential position of variants of ooh in radio phone-ins
- 7.7 Stand-alone ooh+ subsequent other-speaker talk in radio phone-ins
- 7.8 'High' ooh in response to highly detailed informings in mundane complaints and troubles telling
- 7.8.1 'High' ooh as a complaint receipt
- 7.8.2 'High' ooh as a troubles receipt
- 7.9 Ooh - a marker of extreme and dramatic affect?
- 7.10 Summary and conclusions
- 8. Types of affect-laden ahs in troubles talk and deliveries of bad news
- 8.1 Previous accounts in the literature: Ah in English
- 8.1.1 Ah in English dictionaries
- 8.1.2 English ah in empirical studies
- 8.2 'Empathy, 'sympathy' and 'disappointment' in talk-in-interaction
- 8.3 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah
- 8.3.1 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah in troubles telling and in bad-news deliveries (with th
- 8.3.2 The prosodic-phonetic packaging of ah in rejection contexts and in bad-news deliveries (with t
- 8.4 Affect-laden ah in response to troubles talk
- 8.4.1 Ah as a troubles receipt + turn expansion
- 8.4.2 Ah as a troubles receipt + subsequent other-speaker talk
- 8.4.3 Ah as a mock troubles receipt
- 8.4.4 Summary and conclusions
- 8.5 Affect-laden ah in response to deliveries of bad news (with the teller as the consequential figu
- 8.6 Excursus: Affect-laden ah in radio-talk rejection contexts and bad-news deliveries (with the re
- 8.6.1 Rejections of proposals in radio interaction
- 8.6.2 News delivery sequences in radio interaction
- 8.6.3 Summary and conclusions
- 8.7 The interactional pay-off of the variants of ah: Do they signal discrete emotions?
- 8.8 Summary and conclusions
- 9. More affect-laden sound objects
- 9.1 The affect-laden sound object click
- 9.1.1 Previous accounts of clicks in dictionaries, phonetic text books and talk-in-interaction.
- 9.1.2 'Moral indignation' and 'disapproval' in talk-in-interaction
- 9.1.3 Clicks in response to complaints
- 9.1.4 Summary and conclusions
- 9.2 The affect-laden sound object whistle
- 9.2.1 The sound object whistle in previous phonetic accounts
- 9.2.2 The sound object whistle in response to an informing with reference to a numerical figure
- 9.3 Summary and conclusions
- Part IV. Summary and conclusions
- Summary
- Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- Figures
- Tables
- Excerpts
- GAT-Transcription conventions (Selting et al. 1998, 2009, modified)
- Subject index
- Name index
