Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI:10.1515/text-2020-0102
Y. Arita
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Abstract This study examines Japanese enactment, an interactional phenomenon wherein participants in conversation act out themselves or others by utilizing specific designs of lexis, grammar, and prosody, as well as body movements. While these enactments can often be observed when a speaker depicts what someone said, did, or thought in the past, this article explores hypothetical enactments. Unlike enactments that are designed as representing real utterances and/or body movements performed in the past, hypothetical enactments are designed with linguistic and contextual features that indicate that they are fictitious. The data were drawn from a collection of video-recorded ordinary conversations in Japanese. Employing Conversation Analysis as its analytical framework, this study focuses on how Japanese speakers use hypothetical enactments to respond to co-participants’ complaints about a third party who is absent from an ongoing here-and-now interactional site (i.e., third-party complaints). The findings reveal that complaint recipients may produce hypothetical enactments as jokes or advice. When complaint recipients provide hypothetical enactments as jokes, they depict an improbable situation sarcastically. When complaint recipients provide hypothetical enactment as advice, they often demonstrate taking an alternative approach toward an antagonist. These enacted hypothetical scenarios may or may not be collaboratively extended by other participants, depending on how those participants treat the proposed scenarios.
作为对第三方投诉的回应的日本假想立法
摘要本研究考察了日本的表演,这是一种互动现象,对话中的参与者通过使用特定的词汇、语法、韵律以及身体动作来表演自己或他人。当说话者描述某人过去说过、做过或想过的事情时,通常可以观察到这些行为,而本文探讨的是假设性行为。与那些被设计为代表过去真实话语和/或身体动作的行为不同,假设的行为被设计成具有语言和语境特征,表明它们是虚构的。这些数据来自一组用日语录制的日常对话视频。本研究采用会话分析作为分析框架,重点研究了日语使用者如何使用假设性行为来回应共同参与者对第三方的抱怨,即第三方的抱怨,因为第三方没有出现在正在进行的互动网站上。研究结果表明,抱怨的人可能会虚构出一些笑话或建议。当抱怨者提供假想的情景作为笑话时,他们会讽刺地描述一个不可能的情况。当投诉对象提供假想的法规作为建议时,他们通常会表现出对对手采取另一种方法。这些制定的假设场景可能会或可能不会被其他参与者协同扩展,这取决于这些参与者如何对待提议的场景。
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1.70
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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