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Stance, resonance and the power of engagement
Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima
[Functions of Language 24:1] 2017
► pp. 16–40

Creative resonance and misalignment stance

Achieving distance in one Hebrew interaction

| University of Massachusetts, Amherst

This paper elaborates on one element of the theory of Dialogic Syntax, Du Bois’ main tool for stance-taking, namely creative resonance. The examples are taken from a recording of a car ride which was part of data collected for the analysis of Hebrew. The focus in the analysis is on misalignment, when participants use stance acts to distance themselves from each other. The main claim of this paper is that whenever a stance act takes place, the relations between the participants are at stake. I show how creative, and to a lesser extent pre-existing, resonance can be used for creating and enhancing distance in misalignment. The discussion connects resonance and Dialogic Syntax with other frameworks for the study of language and interactions.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Stance, dialogic resonance and its structural relations
  • 3.The data
  • 4.The central request to go dancing
  • 5.Misalignment via creative dialogic resonance
  • 6.Resonance, Dialogic Syntax and other theories of interaction
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 4 September 2017
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