Interpersonal Touch in Conversational Joking

IF 3 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Research on Language and Social Interaction Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/08351813.2020.1786970

Xiaoting Li

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study examines the uses of interpersonal touch in everyday interaction. An examination of everyday interactions among adult Mandarin Chinese speakers shows that sustained touch recurs in conversational jokings in two interactional and sequential environments: sequentially disaligned jokings (i.e., jokings that disrupt the speaker’s ongoing turn- and activity-in-progress) and jokings after extended disagreement. Sustained touch seems to perform several functions in the two environments. In sequentially disaligned jokings, the initiation of touch displays the speaker’s orientation to the concurrent talk as disaligned with the projected talk- and activity-in-progress. Sustained touch secures the recipient’s continuous participation in the sequentially disaligned jokings and requests the recipient’s appreciation of the jokings. After extended disagreement, sustained touch displays intimacy and invites the recipient into intimate interaction with the speaker. In both environments, sustained touch seems to delimit the boundaries of a joking. The data are in Mandarin Chinese with English translation.

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会话笑话中的人际接触

摘要本研究考察了人际接触在日常互动中的应用。一项对成年汉语普通话使用者日常互动的研究表明，在两种互动和顺序环境中，持续的触摸会在会话笑话中重复出现：顺序不一致的笑话（即干扰说话者正在进行的转向和活动的笑话）和长时间不同意后的笑话。持续触摸似乎在这两种环境中发挥了多种功能。在顺序不对齐的笑话中，触摸的启动将说话者对同时进行的谈话的方向显示为与所投影的谈话和正在进行的活动不对齐。持续的触摸确保接受者持续参与顺序不一致的玩笑，并请求接受者对玩笑的赞赏。在长时间的分歧之后，持续的触摸显示出亲密感，并邀请接受者与说话者进行亲密互动。在这两种环境中，持续的触摸似乎划定了玩笑的界限。数据为中文普通话，并有英文翻译。

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Research on Language and Social Interaction Multiple-

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7.30

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7.40%

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期刊介绍： The journal publishes the highest quality empirical and theoretical research bearing on language as it is used in interaction. Researchers in communication, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and ethnography are likely to be the most active contributors, but we welcome submission of articles from the broad range of interaction researchers. Published papers will normally involve the close analysis of naturally-occurring interaction. The journal is also open to theoretical essays, and to quantitative studies where these are tied closely to the results of naturalistic observation.