Extreme Case Formulations: Softeners, Investment, and Doing Nonliteral

By D. Edwards. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Moaning, whinging and laughing: the subjective side of complaints (2005, background): “…‘script formulations’ (Edwards, 1994) in which specific events are offered as instances of generalized, recurrent patterns; extreme case formulations (Edwards, 2000a; Pomerantz, 1986); independent corroboration by other victims and witnesses (Edwards and Potter, 1992); graphic narrative…”
“All I have to do is pass”: A discursive analysis of student athletes' talk about prioritising sport to the detriment of education to overcome stressors encountered in combining elite sport and tertiary education (2014, background): “Extreme case formulations can be used to strengthenand legitimise claims, especially claims thatmaybeat issue (Edwards, 2000).”
Moral logic and logical morality: Attributions of responsibility and blame in online discourse on veganism (2005, background): “Speakers may use a whole range of discursive devices to objectify their reports, including corroboration by independent witnesses (Potter, 1996) and extreme case formulations ( Edwards, 2000; Pomerantz, 1986).”
Talking With Your Mouth Full: Gustatory Mmms and the Embodiment of Pleasure (2002, background): “It is worth noting here that both the vagueness and generality of the gustatory mmm afford it rhetorical strength, as with idiomatic expressions (Drew & Holt, 1988; Edwards, 2000; Pomerantz, 1986).”
Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes (2009, background): “Like Extract (9) and in Edwards (2006), P does not topicalize S’s claim about the type of person he is, but continues his questioning.”
‘You Couldn't Say “No”, Could You?’: Young Men's Understandings of Sexual Refusal (2006, background): “Mike describes invitations to have sex as accomplished by ‘always doing everything’ (lines 181–7), cementing his claim that a continuous stream of wellknown, culturally shared, actions are readily ‘hearable’ as invitations to have sex, and that work to maintain a ‘mood’ supportive of the possibility”
Discursive psychology, focus group interviews and participants' categories (2004, neutral): “Edwards, 1995, 1997, 2000; Potter, 1997; Potter & Hepburn, 2003; Wiggins & Potter, 2003).”
"To Be Honest": Sequential Uses of Honesty Phrases in Talk-in-Interaction (2006, background): “HPs handle not only objectivity (the factuality of what is being reported) but also subjectivity—the speaker’s knowledge state and motivation in reporting it (cf. Edwards, 2000, 2005, and in press on the management of subjectivity in complaints, extreme expressions, and other places).”
Some uses of subject-side assessments (2017, background): “…psychological or psychologically implicative expressions – think, know, feel, the range of emotion terms, the management of complaints as not just S-side whinges, the expression of ‘concerns’ when reporting possible child abuse and so on (e.g. Edwards, 1999, 2000, 2005; Potter and Hepburn, 2003).”
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise (2012, background): “…about six months’’ (line 14; Schegloff, N.d.) recompletes the patient’s initial description and downgrades its strength from a global statement toaspecific timeperiod, showingattentiveness to its credibility and ‘‘overblown’’ status in view of the interviewer’s reaction (line 13) (Edwards 2000).”
Positioning a ‘mature’ self in interactive practices: How adolescent males negotiate ‘physical attraction’ in group talk (2004, background): “For instance, Edwards’ (2000) work on romantic couples’ talk in therapy, and Widdicombe and Wooffitt’s (1995) examination of ‘punk’ subcultures, each focus on how speakers cast their identities as ‘non-literal’ (or ‘non-serious’) exemplars of social categories by claiming that their outward…”