Resonance in conversational second stories: a dialogic resource for stance taking
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Maarit Siromaa,
Maarit Siromaa (née Niemelä) received her Ph.D. in resonance in storytelling from the University of Oulu, Finland, and is currently working there as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research interests include situated resources and practices of social interaction. Address for correspondence: English Philology, P.O. Box 1000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland 〈maarit.siromaa@oulu.fi〉.
Abstract
This study investigates resonance (Du Bois 2003, 2007) in second stories as a method of anchoring the second telling to the previous telling and as a resource of stance taking. It takes a closer look at the exact ways in which second stories are structurally shaped through initial (first) tellings by examining the resonating elements (of the first stories) that the second tellers recycle in their second stories, i.e., resonating lexico-syntactic, structural, prosodic, and semantic elements. Tellers legitimize, firstly, their tellings by tying back to the previous story and, secondly, their stance by positioning themselves in view of the stance displayed in the previous story. The resonating second story as such can manifest the recipients' interpretation of what they make of the first story and provide a new angle on the first telling, either reinforcing, redefining, or rejecting the gist of the initial telling. Resonance in second stories manifests the fundamental social cohesion that conversationalists uphold, among other ways, by tying back to each other's words.
About the author
Maarit Siromaa (née Niemelä) received her Ph.D. in resonance in storytelling from the University of Oulu, Finland, and is currently working there as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research interests include situated resources and practices of social interaction. Address for correspondence: English Philology, P.O. Box 1000, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland 〈maarit.siromaa@oulu.fi〉.
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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