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CHAPTER 8: ALIGNING SELVES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SOCIABILITY 8.0 Introduction .................................................................................................. 8.1 Alignment and the Self as Conversation al-Construal ................................. 8.2 Selves in Action ............................................................................... 8.2.1 English Alignment of Sociable Selves ................................................. 8.2.2 German Alignment of Sociable Selves ................................................ 8.3 Discussion; Aligning Selves in the Achievement of Sociability .................. 8.4 Conclusion .................................................................................... CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION: THE TO AND FRO OF FACEWORK IN SOCIABLE EPISODES 287 9.0 Introduction .................................................................................... 9.1 Review of the Study ......................................................................... 9.2 Reflections on the Facework as Alignment Approach .............................. 9.3 Alignment and German-English Differences in Sociable Conversation ........ 9.4 The Facework as Alignment Approach; A Symbolic Terrain for Future Research ............................. ......................................................... 9.5 Conclusion ..................................................................................... Appendix A: Participant Details ....................................................................... Appendix B: Gathering Details .......................................................................... REFERENCES ................................................................................................... ... 235 235 236 239 240 260 281 285 287 288 292 297 300 304 306 308 310 iii
Table List of Tables 1.1 Archetypal Face Threatening Acts and Aspects of Face Threatened 1.2 Politeness and Disagreement 1.3 Individualist (LCC) and Collectivist (HCC) Communicative Behaviour 1.4 Predominant Characteristics of Independent and Interdependent Self- Construals 2.1 Parameters of German - English Communicative Differences 4.1 Recording Equipment 4.2 Total Conversational Data Recorded 4.3 Data: Omissions from Analysis 5.1 Sociable Topics 5.2 Some Characteristics of Speaker / Hearer Alignments to Developing Conversational Topic 6.1 Alignment Contingencies: Basic Notation 7.1 English and German'Sociable Selves' 8.1 Sociable Episodes and the Positive and Negative Alignment of Sociable Selves Page 27 27 33 36 52 104 105 ill 129 132 140 196 284 iv
Page 1 and 2: FACEWORK IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN SOCI
Page 3: CHAPTER 4: DOING SOCIA(B)L(E) SCIEN
Page 7 and 8: Conversational Excerpts Excerpt Pag
Page 9 and 10: Acknowledgments Acknowledgements se
Page 11 and 12: The 'Research Problem' Introduction
Page 13 and 14: Taking these problematics as a star
Page 15 and 16: At the time, this proposal seemed e
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CHAPTER 2 ANGLO-SAXON CHALK AND TEU
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impolite. However, I soon came to r
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in potential or actual conflict sit
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salient differences. For example, G
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Watts observed that German conversa
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Finally, although Watts argued that
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elatively little overlap, and a gen
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contributions, with the former set
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fully and substantively, what was r
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oriented to unmitigated disagreemen
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2.3 Communicative Underpinnings The
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service but by more confrontational
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Finally, additional explanatory dim
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specific communicative practices, a
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Brown and Levinson (1987). Indeed,
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Notes to Chapter 2 11 use the term
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This chapter then can be regarded a
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asic irreducible sociological varia
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Fraser (1990) who, in also attempti
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particularly amenable to such a heu
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identify certain underlying dynamic
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In fact, these two opposing orienta
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at any given point in the flow of c
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orderly and meaningful conversation
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locally managed and constantly in d
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Poles of Alignment Fig. 3.6 Sociabl
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toward a clearer understanding of w
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Notes to Chapter 3 1 See also Brown
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4.1 Research Questions In the previ
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eferring to as sociable includes in
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The decision on quantity of data wa
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largely anecdotal evidence from whi
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such as laughter sequences. I also
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Table 4.3 Data: Omissions from Anal
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The obtrusiveness of my recording w
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hand, I did not want to engage in t
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German. However, these episodes asi
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presented here provides a necessary
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two chapters (Chapters 6 and 7). He
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Hand shakes for example were infreq
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eing invariably solidaric in nature
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claimed on the part of the particip
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Table 5.1 Sociable Topics Topic Cat
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in my observations of German sociab
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collective past peppered with indiv
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In the next chapter I want to explo
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CHAPTER 6 ALIGNMENT IN ACTION: NEGA
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shall not be carried forward into t
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These various symbols are intended
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detrimental effects foreigners are
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approach, I hope to further illumin
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2 bevor (. ) die Schlange nicht zeh
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ot non-ratifi cation and non-suppor
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What happens in this particular exc
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What happens here is that KIP proff
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and English differences in conversa
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Notes to Chapter 6 1 The only insta
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study is a sociological one, and it
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performer, a player, an image, a fi
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English cultures respectively. In a
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I will shortly illustrate how each
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The in-the-know self is a second sy
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documentaries to having witnessed r
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Excerpt 7.6'Up a Hill' The sociable
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RP&EP's mobilisation of an in-the-k
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Excerpt 7.10 Was muss Mann machen?
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of these selves at conversational w
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develop the comparative focus, one
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CHAPTER 8 ALIGNING SELVES IN THE AC
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atification and support of unique,
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Fig 8.2b The Individuated Selves (a
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Excerpt 8.1 'Cookie's Party' I LM:
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as re-invoking selves. The category
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An interesting phenomenon which is
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100 KP: I mean you see two or three
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however, such narrating selves are
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capabilities of KP&EP and in this w
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6 (0.5) 7 EP: America is booming at
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own unemployment levels -a concern
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in 'Cookie's Party'- again, a secon
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is HB: =Yeah not at all but e:: rm=
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episode takes place. Rather, the ta
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The excerpt begins as HB is proffer
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What this talk demonstrates is that
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N work or'Arbeit' being an extremel
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demeaned and knowledgeable selves (
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preceding comments regarding sociab
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CHAPTER 9 CONCLUSION: THE TO AND FR
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identified in conversational behavi
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handled sociable topics, in terms o
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to bring themselves and their inter
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sociable conversation. This sociabl
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maintain the underlying equilibrium
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allowed for by the facework as alig
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somebody who is overly-friendly, ge
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Fig 9.2 A Maxim of Conversational P
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Notes to Chapter 9 1 When we are ta
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German Participants Name Age Occupa
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German Gatherings Gathering Date Se
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Brown, G., and Yule, G. (1983) Disc
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Ervin-Tripp, S., Nakamura, K, and G
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Hellweg, S A., Samovar, L A., and S
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Hu, H C. (1944) The Chinese concept
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- (1979) 'Stylistic Strategies with
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- (1994) 'Facework in Communication
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Snell-Hornby, M.. (1984) 'The Lingu
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Trubisky, P., Ting-Toomey, S., and
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