Stancetaking in Spoken ELF Discourse in Academic Settings: Interpersonal Functions of "I Don't Know" as a Face-Maintaining Strategy

Autor/inn/en	Çiftçi, Hatime; Akbas, Erdem
Titel	Stancetaking in Spoken ELF Discourse in Academic Settings: Interpersonal Functions of "I Don't Know" as a Face-Maintaining Strategy
Quelle	In: Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7 (2021) 1, S.484-502 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Çiftçi, Hatime) ORCID (Akbas, Erdem)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2149-1135
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Computational Linguistics; Interpersonal Communication; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Speech Communication; Academic Language; Doctoral Dissertations; Oral Language; Discourse Analysis; Language Usage; Doctoral Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Foreign Countries; Evaluators; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Pragmalinguistik; Soziolinguistik; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Ausland; Finnland
Abstract	Our study examines interpersonal functions enacted through a stance marker in spoken ELF academic discourse. We specifically focus on investigating the functions of "I don't know" in an academic speech event by embracing an interpersonal pragmatics and sociolinguistics perspective to figure out how it contributes to the act of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity. We have examined 14 interactions of doctoral defense discussions from the ELFA corpus. Our detailed discourse analysis of these doctoral defense discussions has revealed five distinctive interpersonal functions of the stance marker "I don't know" allowing speakers to construct their stance and adopt a face-maintaining strategy in the ongoing spoken discourse: prefacing a suggestion, seeking acceptance, hedging/mitigating, checking agreement, and expressing uncertainty. Considering the highly-context dependent and context-regenerated functions of "I don't know," our study attempts to delve into the relational and interpersonal aspect of communication, and thus contributes to research in this strand by disclosing the interpersonal functions of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity with a particular focus on ELF academic discourse. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Anafartalar Campus Faculty of Education Department of Foreign Language Education, Canakkale 07100, Turkey. e-mail: editor@ejal.info; Website: https://www.ejal.info/index.php/ejal
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01