Multimodal Assemblies for Prefacing a Dispreferred Response: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis

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Pekarek Doehler, S. - Polak-Yitzhaki, H. - Xiaoting, L. - Stoenica, I. - Havlík, Martin - Keevallik, L.
Multimodal Assemblies for Prefacing a Dispreferred Response: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis.
Frontiers in Psychology. -, č. 12 (2021), s. 1-24. E-ISSN 1664-1078
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378092
Klíčová slova: preference organization * gaze * epistemic markers * conversation analysis * turn-prefacing * multimodality
Obor OECD: Linguistics
Impakt faktor: 4.232, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689275/full

In this paper we examine how participants’ multimodal conduct maps onto one of the basic organizational principles of social interaction: preference organization – and how it does so in a similar manner across five different languages (Czech, French, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Romanian). Based on interactional data from these languages, we identify a recurrent multimodal practice that respondents deploy in turninitial position in dispreferred responses to various first actions, such as information requests, assessments, proposals, and informing. The practice involves the verbal delivery of a turn-initial expression corresponding to English ‘I don’t know’ and its variants (‘dunno’) coupled with gaze aversion from the prior speaker. We show that through this ‘multimodal assembly’ respondents preface a dispreferred response within various sequence types, and we demonstrate the cross-linguistic robustness of this practice: Through the focal multimodal assembly, respondents retrospectively mark the prior action as problematic and prospectively alert co-participants to incipient resistance to the constraints set out or to the stance conveyed by that action. By evidencing how grammar and body interface in related ways across a diverse set of languages, the findings open a window onto cross-linguistic, cross-modal, and cross-cultural consistencies in human interactional conduct.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0323968