‘I just need a yes or no’: Managing resistant responses in U.S. Senate hearings

IF 1.4 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Marissa Caldwell, Joshua Raclaw
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Abstract

Using conversation analysis, this article examines how questioners manage resistant responses in the context of U.S. Senate hearings. In particular, we examine how questioning Senators use explicit metacommentary – a turn constructional practice in which speakers offer ‘on-record’ comments on the manner in which a prior turn was formulated – to manage a recipient’s resistant responses to polar questions. Within these contexts, metacommentary becomes a resource for highlighting the preference organization of the original question and challenging the adequacy of the recipient’s response. The analysis shows how metacommentary not only serves to guide a question recipient toward producing an adequate response, but additionally works to register the questioning Senator’s stance toward the inadequacy of the response while highlighting this inadequacy for both the co-present audience and viewers of these publicly televised hearings.
“我只需要一个是或否”:管理美国参议院听证会上的抵制反应
本文使用对话分析,探讨了在美国参议院听证会的背景下提问者如何管理抵抗性反应。特别是,我们研究了质疑参议员如何使用明确的元评论-一种回合结构实践,发言者对先前回合的制定方式提供“记录”评论-来管理收件人对极性问题的抗拒反应。在这种情况下,元评论成为强调原始问题的偏好组织和质疑接受者回答的充分性的资源。分析表明,元评论不仅有助于引导问题接受者做出适当的回应,而且还有助于记录提问参议员对回应不足的立场,同时向共同出席的听众和这些公开电视听证会的观众强调这种不足。
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Discourse Studies
Discourse Studies COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
3.30
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5.60%
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62
期刊介绍: Discourse Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law.
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