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- Title
Perspective-Display Sequences in Conversation.
- Authors
Maynard, Douglas W.
- Abstract
This paper investigates a strategy for giving an opinion by first soliciting another party's opinion and then producing one's own report in a way that takes the other's into account. This is done through a three-part "perspective-display sequence," consisting of (1) an opinion query or "perspective-display invitation," (2) the reply or recipient's opinion, and (3) asker's subsequent report. This sequence can be expanded through use of the prompt, a secondary query that prefigures askers' subsequent report and seeks the exact material with which that report can agree. Agreement and other exhibits of affiliation between recipient's and Eisker's displayed positions are preferred features of the device's use. Thus eisker's report seconds or confirms recipient's perspective; at the same time, recipient's position is exploited to reinforce or affirm the position in inviter's report. The strategy of using a perspective-display sequence is pertinent to situations where cautiousness in giving reports and opinions seems warranted.
- Subjects
CONVERSATION; COLLOQUIAL language; ETIQUETTE; ORAL communication; CONVERSATION analysis; RESEARCH
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1989, Vol 53, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570318909374294