Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation

By S. Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, neutral): “In an analysis of surprise, for example, Wilkinson and Kitzinger (2006) show that surprise tokens are not spontaneous, impulsive eruptions, but rather that “they are little performances of viscerality” (p. 161).”
Extraction and aggregation in the repair of individual and collective self-reference (2007, background): “Bea then shows her appreciation of the report as bad news by issuing a reaction token (Wilkinson and Kitzinger, 2006) (‘Oh::’, line 7).”
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise (2012, background): “The surprise tokens serve to register the ‘‘unexpectedness of information conveyed in a prior turn at talk’’ (Wilkinson and Kitzinger 2006:154), display alignment with the teller’s treatment of it as surprising, andpromote elaboration of the narrative.”
Deontic Authority in Interaction: The Right to Announce, Propose, and Decide (2012, background): “The cantor’s response is different, however, as it is an extremely slowly articulated display of surprise (see Wilkinson & Kitzinger, 2006) with an exceptionally wide pitch range (”
Customer-Centric Science: Reporting Significant Research Results With Rigor, Relevance, and Practical Impact in Mind (2010, background): “For example, Wilkinson and Kitzinger (2006) focused on what they labeled reaction tokens such as ‘‘Wow!,’’ ‘‘My Goodness!,’’ ‘‘Ooh!,’’ and ‘‘That’s amazing!’’ Wilkinson and Kitzinger (2006) wanted to answer the question of ‘‘what are these exclamatory imprecations doing?’’ Conversation analysis invo”
‘Articulating the unsaid’ via and-prefaced formulations of others’ talk (2010, background): “’ at line 27), Cat goes on to enact her surprise (Wilkinson and Kitzinger, 2006) by requesting confirmation of a more extreme formulation (see the use of ‘at all’ at line 29) and then to negatively assess the professor (lines 31 and 34), thereby affiliating with Reese and aligning with the troubles-”
Marking understanding versus receipting information in talk: Achso. and ach in German interaction (2010, background): “Wilkinson and Kitzinger (2006) have demonstrated that surprise in interaction is not a ‘visceral eruption’ (p. 150), but is instead an interactional achievement co-produced by all co-participants to the interaction.”