In:Compliments and Positive Assessments: Sequential organization in multi-party conversations
Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 289] 2018
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Published online: 18 July 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.289.toc
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Table of contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
Chapter 2.Research on compliments, positive assessments, and their responses
2.1Compliment or positive assessment
2.1.1Recognizing the form, or: Spotting a compliment when you hear
one
2.1.2Positive assessments
2.1.3Compliments and assessments: Same but different?
2.2How to respond to Positive Remarks
2.2.1Pomerantz (1978, 1984) on second assessments
2.2.2Responses in research
2.3Sequencing the turns
2.3.1From single utterance to conversation
2.3.2Combining the turns in a working model
Chapter 3.Methodology: The data base
3.1Collecting assessments, compliments, and their responses
3.1.1From field notes to corpus search
3.1.2Speech acts and sequences in corpora
3.2The data base that suits the purpose
3.2.1General information on the SBCSAE
3.2.2Choice of scenes from the SBCSAE
Chapter 4.The coding of the Positive Remark sequences
4.1Coding Positive Remarks
4.1.1Reference in Positive Remarks
4.1.2From Manes/Wolfson’s formulae to a new grammatical descriptive
approach
4.1.3Further codings in the Positive Remarks
4.2Sets of Response Strategies
4.2.1The strategies in the SBCSAE data
4.2.2Suggested preference structure in Positive Remark sequences
4.3Turn structures of PosR sequences
4.3.1Challenges of multi-party discourse
4.3.2The structure of following turns in Positive Remark sequences
4.4Additional coding of the Positive Remarks
4.4.1Features of the organizational level
4.4.2Syntactical structure and sentence type
4.4.3The topic level: What do they talk about?
Chapter 5.General overview of Positive Remark sequences
5.1A general overview of all Positive Remarks in the data
5.1.1The distribution of the Positive Remarks
5.1.2Positive Remarks and sentence types
5.1.3Topics in Positive Remarks
5.2The Response Strategies
5.2.1The distribution of the Response Strategies
5.2.2Response Strategies and sentence type
5.2.3Topic and Response Strategies
5.3Interaction and sequencing
5.3.1Response Strategies and their use in the Positive Remark
sequences
5.3.2Structure of turns following a Positive Remark
5.3.3Response Strategies used in specific turns in relation to the
supercategories
5.4Summary of general findings
Chapter 6.Positive Remark Sequences: Focus on three supercategories
6.1The _adj_ category
6.1.1_adj_ subcategories
6.1.2_adj_ interaction and turn organization
6.1.3Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in ‘turn by
other’ sequences in _adj_
6.2The _noun_ category
6.2.1_noun_ subcategories
6.2.2_noun_ interaction and turn organization
6.2.3Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in ‘turn by
other’ sequences in _noun_
6.3The _verb_eval category
6.3.1_verb_eval subcategories
6.3.2_verb_eval interaction and turn organization
6.3.3Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in ‘turn by
other’ sequences in _verb_eval
6.4Summary and statistical testing of the sequences
Chapter 7.Discussion
7.1Discussion of the Positive Remarks
7.1.1Utterance and sentence types
7.1.2Topic in Positive Remark sequences
7.1.3Form and function
7.1.4The subcategories of the Positive Remarks: A general
comparison
7.2Sequences and responses
7.3Discussion of preferred Response Strategies
7.3.1
opting out
7.3.2
explaining
7.3.3
agreement
Chapter 8.Conclusion and outlook
References
Appendix A.Abbreviations
Appendix B.Additional tables and text description
Appendix C.Additional figures
