Moaning, whinging and laughing: the subjective side of complaints

By D. Edwards. 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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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).”
"To Be Honest": Sequential Uses of Honesty Phrases in Talk-in-Interaction (2006, background): “HPs effectively deny that the assessment is motivated by anything other than honesty, with other possibilities including spite, rancor, jealousy, or a tendency to complain (cf. Edwards, 2005).”
The Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM): A Method for Training Communication Skills as an Alternative to Simulated Role-play (2014, background): “M’s question is what Edwards and Stokoe (2007) called the ‘self-help’ question.”
Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis (2012, background): “Category selection is therefore important not only for ensuring that the ‘right’ resonances and inferences are made relevant for the object of description, but also for the ‘subjectside’ (Edwards, 2005) inferences that can be made about the speaker as, say, ‘gender aware’ (e.”
Doing actions with identity categories: complaints and denials in neighbor disputes (2009, background): “The laughter particles in her modifier manage what Edwards (2005) calls the ‘‘speakerindexical nature of complaints.’’”
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise (2012, background): “In both extracts the speakers manage the ‘‘subject side’’ of their descriptions (Edwards 2005) by talking ‘‘so as to be heard as imparting surprising information’’ (Wilkinson and Kitzinger 2006:155, emphasis in original).”