In dieser konversationsanalytisch-interaktionslinguistischen Arbeit werden verbale, para-verbale und nonverbale Ressourcen zur Darstellung des Affekts Mitleid im Rahmen der sozialen Aktivität Erzählung untersucht. Grundlage der Analyse sind Video- und Audiodaten deutscher Gespräche. Es wird einerseits aufgezeigt, welche Ressourcen von Erzählerinnen eingesetzt werden, um affektive Reaktionen relevant zu machen (z.B. Blickverhalten, Augenbrauenbewegungen, rhetorische Mittel), andererseits wird beschrieben, welche spezifischen Ressourcen zur Darstellung von Mitleid eingesetzt werden (z.B. Interjektionen mit spezifischen Tonhöhenverläufen, „arme/r/s + S“-Konstruktionen, Handbewegungen). Es wird zudem demonstriert, dass es sich bei der Darstellung von Mitleid um ein interaktiv hergestelltes, soziales Phänomen handelt. Anhand des metakommunikativen Wissens der Sprecher, das sprachlich relevant gemacht wird und somit für die Analyse zugänglich ist, kann eine grundlegende soziale Regel zur Darstellung von Mitleid herausgearbeitet werden: Voraussetzung für Mitleid bzw. seine Darstellung ist eine spezifische Qualität der sozialen Beziehung zu der ‚consequential figure‘ (Maynard 1997). Nur wenn diese vorhanden ist bzw. interaktiv hergestellt wird, kann eine Mitleidsdarstellung in einer Erzählung über problematische Themen relevant gemacht werden und der lokalen Herstellung von sozialer Nähe zwischen den Gesprächsteilnehmern dienen. / The thesis explores the verbal, para-verbal and nonverbal resources which speakers deploy in everyday conversation to display sympathy in the course of the social activity storytelling. The analysis draws upon Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics and is based on video and audio data of German talk-in-interaction. It will be shown which resources can be used by storytellers to make affective reactions relevant (e.g. gaze, eye brow movements, rhetorical devices) and which resources are deployed by recipients to display sympathy (e.g. interjections with specific pitch contours, ‘poor+N’-constructions, hand gestures). It will also be demonstrated how participants manage the transition from problematic phases of storytelling to subsequent talk, e.g. by contextualizing it as more humorous. Furthermore, participants provide access to their meta-communicative knowledge of when and how to display sympathy appropriately by making it linguistically relevant in the interaction. Thus, from these observations, it is possible to assume certain feeling and/or display rules for this specific kind of emotive involvement. The overall findings of this study are that a) it seems that a specific quality of the relationship to the ‘consequential figure’ (Maynard 1997) is a prerequisite for displaying sympathy, and b) social closeness may be created locally within the interaction through the affect display.

Abstract This thesis reports on an empirical study of the forms and functions of two interrelated syntactic constructions, tag questions and negative yes/no interrogatives, in naturally occurring American English conversations. More specifically, the thesis focuses on examining the ways in which these interrogative constructions are involved in the intersubjective and interactional construction of stance. This involves describing the linguistic and interactional practices through which speakers index and negotiate their evaluative, affective or epistemic position or point of view towards some matter in the local context. The data used in the study comprise naturally occurring face-to-face and telephone interactions the majority of which take place between family and friends. The data are drawn from the first three published parts of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English.The study is based on the methodological and theoretical principles of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. The first part of the study provides an examination of the linguistic and grammatical patterning of the chosen constructions in a database of naturally occurring interactions in English. This serves first of all as a study of the general linguistic patterning of utterances with negation or reversed word order in interaction. At the same time, however, the grammatical and semantic categories of person, verb type and tense are employed for establishing the high frequency of linguistic and semantic material that index the current speaker's affective, evaluative and/or epistemic position towards the issue at hand. The second part of the study expands the focus from individual utterances to the surrounding interactional context in which the interrogative constructions are located, and makes use of the conversation analytic methodology. I examine how discourse participants use negative yes/no interrogatives and tag questions as a resource for carrying out different actions such as requesting for confirmation, challenging, disagreeing and assessing, and the ways in which interrogative speakers convey their epistemic, affective or evaluative stances in so doing. In this section of the study the research proceeds through detailed analyses of interaction, and an examination of those sequential environments in which the interrogative constructions are found.

Ancrée dans une perspective interactionnelle, cette thèse présente une analyse du phénomène de refus. À partir de sa caractérisation en tant que deuxième partie de paire adjacente, nous avons constitué une collection d’occurrences, issues de corpus audiovisuels documentant plusieurs types d’interaction (conversations entre amis, préparations de repas, interactions en site commercial, visites guidées). Nous avons proposé une transcription détaillée des extraits retenus, qui rend compte des productions verbales ainsi que de la multimodalité. Sous le double angle de vue de la linguistique interactionnelle et de la macrosyntaxe aixoise, nous avons mené une analyse combinée afin de proposer des caractérisations à la fois séquentielles et syntaxiques des actions initiatives et réactives dans les échanges comportant un refus. La première partie analytique de la thèse porte sur le refus d’un objet, la deuxième partie examine le refus d’une réponse incorporée dans la formulation d’une demande de confirmation. Nous avons ainsi fait dialoguer dans une démarche opérationnelle deux approches qui opèrent dans le champ de la langue parlée en interaction. Les analyses multimodales et interactionnelles nous ont conduit à l’individuation de motifs séquentiels, pour lesquels nous avons également pu dégager une caractérisation macrosyntaxique. Dans ce travail, la négation est étroitement liée à la réalisation du refus, elle est considérée à la fois à travers les ressources verbales qui permettent de l’exprimer et dans ses manifestations physiques (secouements de tête, gestes manuels, expressions mimiques). / Our research focuses on rejection in conversation, from an interactional linguistic perspective. Rejection is sequentially characterized as a second pair part. Our analysis is based on a collection of instances from naturally occurring video data (ordinary conversations, dinner conversations, interactions in commercial settings, meal preparations, guided tours). We propose a fine-grained transcription of conversational excerpts, taking into account multimodal and verbal resources. From a perspective relying on interactional linguistics and Aix macrosyntax, we carry out a mixed analysis in order to study both sequential and syntactic characterizations of initiative and reactive actions in sequences involving rejection.The first part of our study focuses on the rejection of concrete offers dealing with objects, the second part concerns rejections of candidate answers dealing with confirmation requests. Our research is grounded in talk-in-interaction and we mobilize two approaches that operate in this field. The multimodal and interactional analysis allows us to highlight sequential patterns, which can also be characterized in macrosyntactic terms. In our data, negation is closely connected to the realization of rejection: it is considered both through the verbal resources that enable it to be expressed and in its physical manifestations (head shakes, hand gestures, facial expressions).

Cette analyse des stratégies mises en œuvre par une entreprise pour l’emploi des personnes handicapées est le fruit d’un travail d’observation de près de quatre années, mené dans le cadre d’une thèse « CIFRE ». Notre étude s’appuie sur des corpus d’interactions et de documents issus des activités de l’entreprise (supports de communication, mails, notes de travail, etc.). Ayant situé notre travail dans la perspective de la linguistique interactionnelle, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à la façon dont une entreprise définit le handicap. Des situations de réunion (préparation de communications internes, réunions « d’information-sensibilisation » destinées au personnel) et des documents réalisés dans la perspective d’une politique d’intégration de personnes permettent d’analyser un ensemble de pratiques descriptives du handicap. Ces pratiques révèlent des modes de description très éloignés des pratiques ordinaires qui traitent le plus souvent du handicap comme d’un stigmate. En effet, les pratiques des entreprises visent au contraire à le constituer en ressource afin de convaincre de l’intérêt que représente l’emploi des personnes handicapées (avantages managériaux, financiers, etc.). Les descriptions produites sont constitutives d’un savoir sur le handicap propre au contexte de l’entreprise et rendent visibles pour l’analyste les processus de catégorisation des personnes handicapées ainsi que les attentes normatives associées à cette catégorie. L’analyse des pratiques observées nous a permis de réaliser un support d’information et de sensibilisation pour la mise en œuvre d’une politique d’emploi en faveur des personnes handicapées. / This analysis of strategies used by a company in the employment of disabled persons is the product of fours years of observation, undertaken as part of a company-university doctoral partnership [“CIFRE” contract]. Our study is based on interactional data and documents produced by company’s activities (communication mediums, e-mails, meetings notes, etc...). Our work falls within the boundaries of interactional linguistics, with a specific focus on how companies define disability. We were able to analyze a series of descriptive practices of disability in the context of meetings (for the preparation of internal communication, to inform and raise awareness among personnel) and though documents produced to implement an employment policy for persons with disabilities. These practices reveal ways of describing disability that greatly differ from ordinary practices, which often treat disability as a stigma. Indeed, company practices seek to present disability as a resource, in order to convincingly convey the benefits of employing disabled persons (management and financial gains, etc.). The descriptions produced are constitutive of a knowledge about disability, unique to the company’s context, and which make visible to the analyst both the processes of categorization of disabled persons as well as presumptive knowledge concerning this category. The analysis of practices observed allowed us to design a document to inform and raise awareness about the implementation of an employment policy concerning people with disabilities.

Ziel der hier vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die stilistische Perspektive der interaktionalen Linguistik, welche an dieser Stelle vorerst kurzum als „Stil ist sozial“ beschrieben werden soll, in die Stilanalyse der forensischen Linguistik und damit in die Aufgaben und Methoden der Autorschaftsattribution zu integrieren. Bisher folgt die forensische Stilanalyse einem Ansatz, welcher Stil als die individuelle Wahl eines jeden Individuums in Anhängigkeit zum Medium und der Textsorte beschreibt und dementsprechend auch in der Stilanalyse betrachtet. Im Kontext der modernen Forschungen und auch der voranschreitenden Kommunikation auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen erscheint die derzeitige Stilperspektive der forensischen Linguistik nicht mehr geeignet, um einen umfassenden Blick auf die stilistischen Gegebenheiten eines schriftsprachlichen Stils herauszustellen und somit den Weg für eine erfolgreiche Autorenerkennung zu ebnen. Die interaktionale Linguistik und die interaktionale Stilistik sollen im Folgenden dabei helfen, einen neuen Blickwinkel für die Autorschaftsattribution in Bezug auf den Stil des Täters zu schaffen, um somit interaktionale Kommunikation und die Bedingungen eines wechselseitigen Kontextes stärker in den Fokus dieser recht jungen Disziplin zu rücken, deren Weiterentwicklung weiterhin gesichert werden muss.

The thesis investigates reference to non-present, singular persons in Swedish talk-ininteraction. The overall aim of the study is to analyse instances of person reference as parts of their linguistic, sequential and social contexts, and to describe these instances with regard to interactional, formal/structural, and functional aspects. An important point of departure for the study is that instances of person reference must be analysed as choices from different alternatives. This means that instances of person reference should neither be thought of as mere manifestations of the speaker’s own state of knowledge of the referent and her/his assessment of the addressee’s knowledge state, nor as reflections of structural aspects of the discourse. Theoretically and methodologically, the study belongs to the fields of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis (CA). The data for the study are drawn from naturally occurring everyday and institutional interaction and includes two-party and multi-party interaction, and telephone as well as face-to-face interaction. The analyses of introductory references to persons highlight issues such as the speaker’s claimed knowledge of/familiarity with the referent as well as the claims being made on behalf of the addressee, the role and importance of the referent in the activity of the talk, and the implications of person reference on the affiliation/disaffiliation of the participants with the referent, as well as with each other. The analyses of references to persons that have already been introduced in the interaction centres on partly different issues. The categorization of these references is based on two factors; the first being the sequential position of the reference and the second being whether the reference contributes to sequential continuity or discontinuity. The analyses emphasize that referential choice is an important resource for the construction of continuity and discontinuity, and that participants make use of these resources in unmarked as well as marked ways. This means that participants choose between different referential expressions, and these choices have different consequences depending on, inter alia, the sequential position of the reference. The study shows that reference to persons is doubly contextual: participants’ referential choices are made in consideration of the foregoing as well as the upcoming activity of the talk. Consequently, in order to adequately describe instances of person reference, the sequential context must be taken into account.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-06-02T11:53:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 robertoperobellideoliveira.pdf: 2358557 bytes, checksum: 51c90cb134b320721c3c108e9cc461d7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-02T13:06:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 robertoperobellideoliveira.pdf: 2358557 bytes, checksum: 51c90cb134b320721c3c108e9cc461d7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-02T13:06:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 robertoperobellideoliveira.pdf: 2358557 bytes, checksum: 51c90cb134b320721c3c108e9cc461d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-22 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar como se realizam interacionalmente algumas instâncias sequenciais que estamos considerando como episódios de conflito. A análise é realizada com base no arcabouço teórico de uma linguística interacional, a partir das políticas de pesquisa empreendidas pela Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica e pela Sociolinguística Interacional. Trata-se de um estudo de caso realizado sobre gravações em áudio e transcritas de acordo com o modelo Jefferson de transcrição (LODER, 2008), na Vara de Família de uma cidade de interior no Sudeste brasileiro, em que uma assistente social se coloca como terceira parte, durante a fase de produção de parecer técnico, em um processo de regulamentação de visitas. Os litigantes, ficticiamente chamados Flávia e Amir, em conjunto com Sônia, codinome atribuído à representante da instituição, produzem ações confrontacionais que desencadeiam processos de prestações de contas (do inglês, accounts), as quais, ao invés de encerrar, acabam por investir mais no litígio, proporcionando a interpretação de que prestações de contas não só normalizam as expectativas dos participantes, mas também podem ser geradoras de mais fala de conflito, dependendo das ações em curso e do tópico abordado. O estudo pretende ser uma contribuição para as pesquisas em linguística aplicada das profissões, uma vez que procura descrever as diferentes anatomias do conflito, a partir das escolhas interacionais dos agentes. Além disso, esta tese poderá ser, também, uma contribuição para os praticantes da mediação endoprocessual, na medida em que descreve, a partir do entrecruzamento de tópicos e ações, os modos de agir dos participantes envolvidos, diante de determinados temas bastante comuns neste tipo de conduta processual. Sendo assim, esta tese “disseca” os vários corpos sequenciais que os episódios de conflito assumem, dada sua diversificação de contornos a partir das características tópicas e acionais envolvidas. / The present work aims to examine how some sequential instances that we are considering as conflict episodes happen interactionally. The analysis is implemented based on the theoretical framework of a interactional linguistics, from the policies of reserach undertaken by Conversation Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics. This is a case study which was produced based on audio recordings, which were transcribed according to the Jeffersonion model of transcription (LODER, 2008), done in the Family Court of a town in southeastern Brazil, in which a social worker is placed as third party, during the production of technical advice, in a process of regulatory visits. The litigants, fictitiously called Flávia and Amir, along with Sônia (nickname assigned to the representative of the institution) produce confrontational actions that trigger processes of accounts which, instead of closing, end up investing deeply in dispute, which means that accounts not only normalize participants‟ expectations, but can also generate more conflict talk, depending on the ongoing actions and the topic being discussed. The study intends to be a contribution to research in applied linguistics related to professions, as it seeks to describe the different anatomies of the conflict from the interactional choices of the agents. Furthermore, this project may also be a contribution to the practitioners of endoprocessual mediation, as it describes, from the intersection of topics and actions, the ways the participants involved do things in certain circunstances which are quite common in this type procedural conduct. Thus, this thesis “dissects” the various sequential bodies that conflict episodes assume, given their different contours according to the topical and actional features involved.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-05-23T12:30:22Z No. of bitstreams: 0 / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-05-23T12:52:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-23T12:52:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-05-14 / A partir de uma abordagem interacional, Gille (2001) define a argumentação como um processo constituído por movimentos argumentativos (MA), realizados de forma explícita ou implícita na interação. Nessa perspectiva, a argumentação compreende ações sequenciais coconstruídas na interação, por meio das quais opiniões expressas ou inferidas são negociadas. Dentre os movimentos argumentativos utilizados na sustentação de pontos de vista, Barletta (2014) identifica os MA de evidência legal, os quais correspondem a argumentos que sustentam o ponto de vista de um participante por meio de evidências cujo respaldo se encontra na lei. O estudo da autora incita um olhar mais específico para as contribuições dos MA de evidência legal para o cumprimento do objetivo principal das audiências de conciliação que ocorrem na arena do PROCON – a resolução do conflito. Com a proposta de investigar esse aspecto, agregando achados aos estudos da argumentação no referido contexto institucional, este trabalho teve o objetivo de investigar reformulações de movimentos argumentativos (MA) de evidência legal em duas audiências de conciliação no PROCON de uma cidade da zona da mata mineira. Para tanto, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de base qualitativa e interpretativa (DENZIN e LINCOLN, 2006; SCHWANDT, 2006), que contou com o aparato da Análise da Conversa, valendo-se sobretudo de referenciais que tratam da base teórica (SACKS, 1973; SACKS, SCHEGLOFF E JEFFERSON, 1974; SCHEGLOFF, JEFFERSON E SACKS, 1977; POMERANTZ, 1984; entre outros) e metodológica (POMERANTZ E FEHR, 1997) desta vertente de estudos linguísticos, bem como de referenciais que dela partiram para um estudo da prática de reformulação (GARFINKEL E SACKS, 1970; HERITAGE E WATSON, 1979; entre outros). O material linguístico analisado foi gravado em áudio e transcrito de acordo com as convenções propostas pelos analistas da conversa (SACHS, SCHEGLOFF e JEFFERSON, 1974). As análises desenvolvidas nos possibilitaram observar a ocorrência de reformulações tanto dos MA de evidência legal realizados pela mediadora como dos MA de evidência legal realizados pelos reclamados. As reformulações eram dos seguintes tipos: reformulação de checagem (ou reformulação como ação de checagem de entendimento), reformulação do tipo resumo, reformulação desafiadora (ou reformulação como ação de desafio), reformulação feita por meio de explicação, reformulação feita por meio de sugestão, reformulação do cerne, reformulação ratificadora da acusação, reformulação ratificadora do ponto de vista, reformulação ratificadora da legislação, e reformulação do tipo correção exposta; e realizaram diversas ações, no curso das interações, que abriram espaço para o desfecho da audiência. Por fim (e em suma), não obstante se a decisão da reformulação tenha sido sua confirmação ou sua desconfirmação, seu uso culminou em importantes benefícios interacionais. Os resultados alcançados nos permitem advogar que reformulações do movimento argumentativo de evidência legal, no contexto de audiências de conciliação, podem contribuir para o alcance do acordo entre as partes envolvidas, na medida em que operam, turno a turno, na negociação do conflito, desencadeado pela apresentação e sustentação de argumentos divergentes, que expõem diferentes pontos de vista na interação em curso. Conclui-se, então, que, nesta pesquisa, o gerenciamento dos conflitos, gerados por argumentações divergentes, foi possibilitado pelas diversas reformulações realizadas ao longo das audiências de conciliação (aqui analisadas) do PROCON da zona da mata mineira, e culminou no acordo entre as partes. / By adopting an interactive approach, Gille (2001) defines argumentation as a process constituted by argumentative movements (AM) explicitly or implicitly carried out in interaction processes. Thus, argumentation comprises sequential actions co-constructed through interaction, which allow negotiating expressed or inferred opinions. According to Barletta (2014), legal AMs stand out among argumentative movements used to support viewpoints because they correspond to arguments that corroborate participants’ viewpoint by means of evidences supported by laws. The aforementioned author invites us to take a more specific look at the contributions from legal AMs to fulfill the main goal of conciliation hearings taking place at PROCON, i.e., conflict resolution. The aim of the current study is to analyze reformulations applied to legal argumentative movements (AM) in two PROCON conciliation hearings held in a city located in Zona da Mata Region (Minas Gerais State) in order to investigate such contributions and to add findings to studies about argumentation in the aforementioned institutional context. A qualitative and interpretive research (DENZIN and LINCOLN, 2006; SCHWANDT, 2006), which was based on Conversation Analysis, was herein developed. It was mainly supported by references concerning the theoretical (SACKS, 1973; SACKS, SCHEGLOFF and JEFFERSON, 1974; SCHEGLOFF, JEFFERSON and SACKS, 1977; POMERANTZ, 1984; among others) and methodological (POMERANTZ and FEHR, 1997) bases of this linguistic study approach, as well as by references that used such approach to study (re)formulation practices (GARFINKEL and SACKS, 1970; HERITAGE and WATSON, 1979; among others). The herein analyzed linguistic material was audio recorded and transcribed according to conventions proposed by conversation analysts (SACHS, SCHEGLOFF and JEFFERSON, 1974). The analyses conducted in the present study showed legal AM reformulations carried out by both the mediator and the defendants. Both parts presented the following reformulation types: confirmatory reformulation (or reformulation used as the action of confirming the understanding about something), summary-type reformulation, challenging reformulation (or reformulation used as challenging action), reformulation done by means of explanation, reformulation done by means of suggestion, root cause reformulation, reformulation ratifying the accusation, reformulation ratifying the viewpoint, reformulation ratifying the legislation, and correction-type reformulation. These reformulations enabled several actions in the course of the interactions and allowed the hearing to reach an outcome. Finally, the use of reformulations has generated important interactional benefits, regardless of whether the decision to reformulate was based on confirmation or disconfirmation purposes. Results in the current study allow stating that reformulations applied to legal argumentative movements during conciliation hearings may help the involved parts to reach an agreement. It happens because reformulations carried out in each participant’s turn operate towards the negotiation of conflicts triggered by the presentation of and support to divergent arguments, which expose different viewpoints in the interaction in progress. The current study concluded that the management of conflicts generated by divergent arguments was enabled by several reformulations carried out during the herein analyzed conciliation hearings held at PROCON, as well as that such management helped the involved parts to reach an agreement.

Abstract The study examines ‘recovery through repetition’, investigating how speakers repeat their own utterances in order to return to prior talk. The phenomenon comprises instances of everyday, casual conversation in which speakers indicate that their utterance was either not taken up at all or not taken up to an adequate degree. By repeating the utterance more or less word-for-word, speakers suggest to their recipients that a (different type of) response is relevant and offer the utterance for re-consideration. The data consist of American-English and Finnish conversations. The segments come from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English and from the Corpus of Conversational Finnish that is maintained by the Department of Finnish Language and Literature at the University of Helsinki (Keskusteluntutkimuksen arkisto). The theoretical and methodological framework of the study is based on interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. First, the study details the typical composition and position of recovery through repetition and discusses the interactional implications that the repeated utterances may have. The study focuses on the functions of recovery through repetition and their implications for stance taking. Two overall interactional environments are identified: speakers employ recovery through repetition either to seek the attention of recipients and to take a stance towards an activity in progress, or to redirect the attention of recipients and to take a stance towards a recipient response. The different functions of recovery through repetition in the two environments are further examined. Moreover, the study contrasts repetition with other means of recovery and suggests that the different means have divergent implications for stance taking. Finally, the study concludes that recovery through repetition provides speakers with a means of negotiating the input of their utterances and simultaneously taking a stance towards an aspect of the ongoing interaction. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimus tarkastelee toistoa elvytyskeinona keskustelussa eli sitä, kuinka puhuja toistaa oman lausumansa palatakseen aiempaan puheeseen. Ilmiö muodostuu arkisista, epämuodollisista keskustelutilanteista, joissa puhuja osoittaa, että jotakin hänen lausumaansa ei ole joko otettu lainkaan huomioon tai sitä ei ole käsitelty asianmukaisesti. Toistamalla lausuman lähes sanatarkasti puhuja ilmaisee keskustelukumppaneilleen, että jonkinlainen (tai mahdollisesti tietyntyyppinen) vastaanotto olisi odotuksenmukainen, ja tarjoaa lausumaansa käsiteltäväksi uudelleen. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostuu amerikanenglannin- ja suomenkielisistä keskusteluista, jotka ovat peräisin Santa Barbaran puhutun amerikanenglannin kokoelmasta (Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English) ja Helsingin yliopiston suomen kielen ja kotimaisen kirjallisuuden laitoksen Keskusteluntutkimuksen arkistosta. Tutkimuksen teoreettisen ja menetelmällisen viitekehyksen muodostavat vuorovaikutuslingvistiikka ja keskustelunanalyysi. Aluksi tutkimuksessa kartoitetaan yksityiskohtaisesti elvyttävän toiston tyypillistä rakennetta ja paikkaa sekä pohditaan toistettujen lausumien mahdollisia vuorovaikutuksellisia seuraamuksia. Tutkimus keskittyy elvyttävän toiston tehtäviin ja niiden merkitykseen asennoitumiselle. Tutkimuksessa tunnistetaan kaksi yleistä esiintymisympäristöä: puhujat käyttävät elvyttävää toistoa joko hakeakseen vastaanottajien huomiota ja ottaakseen kantaa meneillään olevaan toimintaan tai ohjatakseen vastaanottajien huomiota ja ottaakseen kantaa edeltävään vastaanottajan vuoroon. Elvyttävän toiston tehtäviä näissä kahdessa ympäristössä eritellään tutkimuksessa tarkemmin. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa verrataan toistoa muihin elvytyskeinoihin keskustelussa ja esitetään, että eri elvytyskeinoilla rakennetaan asennoitumista eri tavoin. Tutkimus osoittaa, että elvyttävä toisto tarjoaa keskustelijoille keinon neuvotella sanomansa merkityksestä ja samalla rakentaa asennoitumistaan meneillään olevaan vuorovaikutustilanteeseen.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2015-12-17T14:13:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 kriciahelenabarreto.pdf: 3497141 bytes, checksum: 31704e8e9549f637c3c5ef61daf9437b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2015-12-17T18:01:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 kriciahelenabarreto.pdf: 3497141 bytes, checksum: 31704e8e9549f637c3c5ef61daf9437b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-17T18:01:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 kriciahelenabarreto.pdf: 3497141 bytes, checksum: 31704e8e9549f637c3c5ef61daf9437b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-06 / Este estudo tem como objeto o fenômeno conhecido como “memes de Internet”, produzidos no ambiente virtual do website denominado <9gag>, tendo sido focalizada a seção de comentários realizados sobre os memes postados por seus participantes. A partir de uma perspectiva interacional dos estudos do discurso, investigamos a maneira como a replicação dos memes de Internet sinaliza as práticas rituais constitutivas desse grupo e afeta a forma como as faces dos participantes são co-construídas e negociadas no curso da interação. Os rituais e as faces reivindicadas são vistos, então, como práticas que emergem e são sensíveis ao aqui e agora do uso da linguagem nesse contexto. As práticas de reprodução memética, compreendidas como unidades de transmissão cultural e de difusão da informação, fundamentadas na imitação, quando analisadas sob a perspectiva dos rituais relacionais (Kádár, 2013), vão muito além do simples entretenimento dentro de um grupo como o <9gag>. Elas auxiliam na formação e na manutenção do ethos dessa comunidade virtual, fornecendo o status de membros legítimos àqueles que acatam as regras interacionais estabelecidas através dessas práticas. A participação e o alinhamento às práticas rituais do grupo gerou o sentimento de pertencimento e identificação entre os participantes, legitimando-os como membros dessa comunidade, unidos pelo compartilhamento dos valores disseminados pelos memes, do conhecimento das práticas do grupo, e das representações simbólicas construídas pelo grupo. Além disso, através dos processos de elaboração das faces, pudemos verificar como os interagentes modelam as interações da comunidade ao se (des-)alinharem com os tipos de face que emergem nesse website. / The object of this study is the phenomenon known as ‘Internet memes’, produced within a virtual environment, in a website called <9gag>. The comments section was the main focus of analysis. From an interactional perspective on discourse, it has been investigated the way Internet meme replication signals ritual practices constitutive of this group and how it affects the way participants’ faces are co-constructed and negotiated in the course of interaction. Thus, rituals and faces claimed are seen as emergent practices that are sensitive to the interactional here-and-now of language use in this context. Meme-replication practices (understood as units of cultural transmission and dissemination of information, based on imitation), when analysed from the perspective of relational rituals (Kádár, 2013), have interactional effects that go beyond simply entertaining a group such as <9gag>. They help build and maintain the ethos of this virtual community, by giving membership status to those participants who abide by the interactional rules established through these practices. Participation and alignment with the group’s ritual practices have generated the feeling of belonging through identification among participants, legitimating them as members of this community, connected by the sharing of values disseminated by memes, the knowledge of the group’s practices and the symbolic representations constructed by the group. Moreover, it has been verified that through facework processes interactants model interactions within this community by (dis-)affiliating themselves with the types of face that emerge in this website.