Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation

By Tanya Stivers. 2008

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

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The Embodied Turn in Research on Language and Social Interaction (2015, methodology): “…are supported by images/diagrams, including in series or as close-ups (Hayashi, 2003; Keevallik, 2010b; Llewellyn & Butler, 2011; Nishizaka, 2006; Stivers, 2008) or video clips (Zinken & Ogiermann, 2011), these nevertheless require readers’ ability intelligibly to see what authors hope they…”
Addressee backchannels steer narrative development (2014, methodology): “Both our analysis and the conditional distinctions within the experiment relied on previously developed functional categories of backchannels, those of generic and specific responses (Goodwin, 1986; Schegloff, 1982; Stivers, 2008).”
Three orders in the organization of human action: On the interface between knowledge, power, and emotion in interaction and social relations (2014, background): “Especially when people tell stories (Selting 2010; Stivers 2008), report their experiences (Heritage 2011), or complain about other people’s behavior (Couper-Kuhlen 2012), they tend to expand their sequences—apparently —to achieve a point where their emotions are recognized and possibly…”
Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality (2018, background): “Some focus on a restricted number of multimodal details in a given organizational phenomenon (a linguistic form, a nod, a type of gesture, gaze or face, e.g., Mondada, 2007; Peräkylä & Ruusuvuori, 2009; Rossano, 2012; Stivers, 2008).”
The Interdependence of Bodily Demonstrations and Clausal Syntax (2013, background): “In particular, embodied reference (Goodwin, 2007; Hindmash & Heath, 2000) and nodding as an embodied response have been studied (McClave, 2000; Stivers, 2008).”
Exploring Affiliation in the Reception of Conversational Complaint Stories (2012, background): “Furthermore, the (sequential) context of the telling can offer clues; for instance, in a medical visit a telling is likely to be conveying a trouble or problem (Stivers 2008).”
Moving forward with membership categorization analysis: Methods for systematic analysis (2012, background): “: see Stivers, 2008), what is important is that A does not initiate repair (‘Huh?’)”
‘Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk (2010, background): “A distinction between the notions of ‘alignment’ and ‘affiliation’, as discussed by Stivers (2008) appears to be relevant here.”
Soliciting Accounts With Why-Interrogatives in Conversation (2011, background): “…event, and because it can be normative to challenge certain events (e.g., others’ self-deprecatory claims; Pomerantz, 1984), the challenging stance taken up by why-interrogatives can either affiliate/align or disaffiliate/disalign with recipients (on alignment vs. affiliation, see Stivers, 2008).”
Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review (2009, background): “…at such places, the addressee indicates that s/he does not intend to take over the turn, thereby indicating to the speaker that s/he can continue to speak (Maynard, 1993) and/or that the addressee shares evaluative stance on the events and situations being described by the speaker (Stivers, 2008).”
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise (2012, background): “…although the reported speech allows the recipient indirect access to the events described, and the tellers’ positive stance toward those events (Stivers 2008:40), the teller is not claiming rights to self-assess (Heritage and Raymond 2005) or to make positive claims directly on their own…”
Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech (2013, background): “One reason may be that narratives have as one of their main goals letting the hearer know what it was like to experience the events reported (Cassell & McNeill, 1991; Stivers, 2008).”