Display and reaffirmation of affect bond and relationship: Invited guessing in Chinese telephone conversations  

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Sun, Hao

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 85–112.
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This article examines an interactive strategy of invited guessing in Chi- nese telephone conversations. Oriented toward affect bonding between the participants, invited guessing both indexes and strengthens their relation- ship. Caller identification, typically perceived as a procedural component in telephone conversation, is shown to be constructed as an interactive process serving social functions as well as a discourse-structural function. Its primary purpose is to signify and enhance rapport-building. The ob- served interactions present patterns of variation from the proposed univer- sal sequence of telephone conversation openings, suggesting that this discourse structure can respond to variables such as the purpose of the interaction and the relationship between participants in the Chinese con- text. Finally, invited guessing indicates that relationship constitutes an im- portant cultural variable shaping discourse and interaction in Chinese society. (Discourse analysis, Chinese, culture, functions of language, tele- phone conversation, affect)

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