33.3429, Books: The Book of Answers: Stivers

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:58:55
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Book of Answers: Stivers

 


Title: The Book of Answers 
Subtitle: Alignment, Autonomy, and Affiliation in Social Interaction 
Series Title: Foundations of Human Interaction  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-book-of-answers-9780197563892?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Tanya Stivers

Hardback: ISBN:  9780197563892 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 99


Abstract:

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying
Yeah. How different would this make our communication? Relying on a large
corpus of naturally occurring recordings of spontaneous social interaction,
this book explores all of the ways that we confirm questions in our everyday
social lives.

Tanya Stivers analyzes what these different ways of responding allow us to do
that is unique to each answer type. When do we answer with Yeah rather than He
is, for instance; or when do we use more complicated forms of confirming? This
information provides us with the basic response possibility space. From that
point we can examine what the range of responses, in particular answers, tells
us about what is important to us in managing social relationships through
social interaction. The book explains that we can conceptualize the response
possibility space as having three dimensions: alignment, autonomy, and
affiliation. Speakers rely on the details of their response to position
themselves at a particular point in that three-dimensional space, sometimes
accepting trade-offs among the dimensions to achieve a stance that is higher
in alignment and autonomy and lower in affiliation or higher in affiliation
and autonomy but lower in alignment.

The "Book of Answers" uses real-life conversations to find hidden patterns in
how we do things together such as reach decisions, tell stories, or arrive at
agreement or disagreement. Delving into the science of how we talk, this book
investigates what those patterns tell us about human communication and our
social lives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=163954




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