Impersonal you and stance-taking in social research interviews  

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Myers, Greg

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1206-1218.
Topik: Impersonal pronouns; Stance-taking; Interviews; Categorisation; Argument; Commonplaces
Fulltext: Myers_G.pdf (217.46KB)

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The pronoun you is prototypicallyusedtorefertotheaddresseeoraddresseesinaninteraction,butitalsohasotheruses,includinga kind ofimpersonalreferencethatdoesnotpickoutanyparticularperson,butistheequivalentof someone, anyone, or one. Thispaper focuses onhowtheshifttoimpersonal you works inonegenreofinteraction,researchinterviewsbyacademicsocialscience researchers,wheretheparticipantsoftenuse you where thepreviousturnmighthaveprojectedtheuseof I or they. Wearguethatthe shift, andrelatedcuesofthedimensionofspecificvs.general,canbeseenasaformofstance-taking.Weexplorethreepossible functions:(1)recategorisingofthespeakerandtheircategory-associatedexperiences,(2)displayingperceptionsasshared,notmerely individual,and(3)invokingcommonplacestodealwithdilemmasposedbythequestion.Theserhetoricalactionscanberelatedtothe demandsoftheresearchinterview,withtheintervieweeclaimingordisclaiminganentitlementtohaveastance,supportingtheirstances against possiblechallenge,andgivingaccountsorresistingjudgmentsoftheinterviewee'sbehaviourorviews.Attentiontotheseshifts can makesocialscienceresearchersmoreawareoftheinteractionsunderlyingthetranscripts

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