Affect and Emotion in Interaction, Part 1: Everyday Conversation
| Number: | P67 |
| Organizer: | Selting, Margret |
| Co-Organizer: | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen |
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| (This is the first part of a two-part panel. Part 1 will focus on everyday conversations among friends and acquaintances. A final panel linking the two parts is planned for the end of Part 2.) There is a growing awareness that affectivity, or the display and management of heightened emotive involvement in interaction, is relevant to both participants and analysts in finding answers to the omnipresent question of "Why that now?" (Goodwin & Goodwin 2000, Selting 1994, Goffman 1978). This panel will bring together researchers currently working on practices for enacting affect displays in interaction, e.g. laughing (Haakana 2001, 2002), crying (Hepburn 2004, Hepburn & Potter 2006), as well as those working on activities in which affective displays are relevantly produced and managed, e.g. embarrassment in medical interviews (Heath 1988) and seminar discussions (Sandlund 2004), surprise in tellings (Wilkinson & Kitzinger 2006) and repair initiations (Selting 1996), sympathy/empathy in doctor-patient consultations (Ruusuvuori 2005, 2007), disappointment in rejection sequences (Couper-Kuhlen, In press). The aim will be to learn more about the deployment of specific practices for the display and management of heightened emotive involvement within particular conversational activities, with special attention being paid to questions such as: Where and when do affect displays become relevant in particular activity types? What semiotic resources do participants deploy in the production of affect displays in these contexts? What semiotic resources do participants rely on in the interpretation of affect displays in these contexts? How do co-participants respond to affect displays in these contexts? What effect do these responses have on the subsequent trajectory of talk? What constraints apply to the display and management of affect in talk-in-interaction? How is emotion regulated and managed in institutional encounters? |
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