Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 326] 2021
► pp. 81–
On agency and affiliation in second assessments
German and Swedish opinion verbs in talk-in-interaction
In this chapter, we discuss design features of second assessments in German and Swedish conversation. We focus on opinion-verb constructions (finden, tycka) in full and reduced clausal formats. The study shows that reduced formats are followed by sequence closure while full formats are followed by more talk on the topic. We explain this finding by arguing that by using reduced formats, second speakers claim less agency and display low affiliation with the first assessment, whereas full formats work in the opposite way. The full and reduced opinion-verb constructions represent standardized action patterns with recognizable implications, leading to predictable interactional trajectories and coordinated intersubjective behavior.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Agency and affiliation
- 3.Dealing with weak agency: Assessing in group interviews
- 4.Agency, alignment and sequence structure in agreeing second
assessments
- 4.1Sequence closure: Low agency
- 4.2Sequence closure: High(er) agency and low affiliation
- 4.3Sequence expansion: High(er) agency and no evaluative downgrading
- 5.Disagreeing second assessments
- 6.Conclusion
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.326.05aue
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