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In:Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis
Edited by Simon Borchmann, Anne H. Fabricius and Ida Klitgård
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 354] 2025
► pp. 23–75

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Chapter 2
Framing as interaction

Cooperation, relevance, and information structure

 | Roskilde University
Published online: 30 October 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.354.02bor
Abstract
This chapter adopts a pragmatic approach to framing analysis in that it analyzes framing as interaction. Taking a starting point in the assumption that cognition and action are social in origin, organization and use, aboutness-oriented framing is analyzed as socially and ecologically situated and distributed. Placing particular emphasis on the assumptions that cognition and action is cooperative, and that practical knowledge is situated, the chapter develops an ecological pragmatic conceptual framework for framing analysis and a description apparatus that enables the observation of patterns in framing as interaction and the establishment of a basis for the disclosure of the values that guide the framing. The potential of the framework and the description apparatus is illustrated with an exemplary analysis of a debate on a website for hunters.
Article outline
  • 1.Problem and purpose
  • 2.Framing as a basic cognitive phenomenon
    • 2.1Framing as a cognitive phenomenon
    • 2.2Framing the topic and framing the situation
  • 3.Framing as interaction
    • 3.1Methods, data, and ethics
    • 3.2Socially distributed cognition and action
    • 3.3Cooperative cognition and action
    • 3.4Ecologically distributed cognition and action
    • 3.5Situated knowledge
  • 4.The implications for framing analysis: A conceptual framework
  • 5.Framing and information structure
    • 5.1The informativeness of linguistic expressions in framing analysis
    • 5.2Information structure
    • 5.3The specification-based analysis
  • 6.An exemplary framing analysis
  • 7.Summary
  • Notes
  • References
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