Adopting Affective Stances in Interaction
February 1-2, 2024
In this workshop, we will collectively examine many of the resources that speakers rely on to display emotional stances (positive or negative) towards the actions speakers are performing or the ways in which those actions are being done. Sometimes affective stances are conveyed through smiles, eyebrow furrowing, sighs, or laughter. Other times, affective stances are conveyed through lexical choices (e.g., adjective choices such as “stupid” or “fabulous”) or even grammatical resources. We will be interested in approaching the questions of how and when affective stances are displayed in conversation as well as what effect this has on interlocutors and on the conversation (e.g., leading to halts in conversation progressivity or expansion of a telling). We hope to consider the roles of various aspects of speakers’ identities as well as sequential context. Moreover, our goal is to bring the perspectives of linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, linguistics, psychology, communication, and brain injury studies to bear on this investigation.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is an in-person only event. Program and event details will be emailed to registered participants approximately a week before the event. For more information, contact the CLIC coordinator at clic@ucla.edu