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Fig 8.2b The Individuated Selves (as Conversational Construals) of
Negative Alignment
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In effect, this conceptualisation of the self is something akin to a fusion of
a Goffmanian reading of self, and a cross-cultural one. Both conceptual i sations
are essential I believe to understanding conversational facework as alignment in
general, but also cultural differences in conversational facework (see Chapter
9).
With these comments in mind, I now want to consider more closely the
conversational mobilisation of sociable selves, both as players and images, as
well as entities able to alter their statues as conversational construals in the
ratificatory and reciprocal achievement of sociable equilibrium. In the following
section, I shall attempt to illustrate this by employing a sustained focus on
instances of sociable conversation from both milieu.
8.2 Selves in Action
I now want to turn to four particular sociable episodes - two from each
culture - which I shall address by applying the analytical framework advanced
and developed in the preceding chapters. In focusing on these particular
examples of the aim is to demonstrate how, what plays itself out as
-talk,
sociable conversation, can actually be accounted for on a turn by turn basis as
alignment of some of the sociable selves identified in Chapter 7.
In Chapter 51 identified a set what I presented as salient topic
categories, ones necessitated from a practical point of view to gain some sort of
descriptive 'handle' on the range of topics, themes, and issues drawn upon 239