Framing selves in interactional practice (original) (raw)

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the mutual constitution of frames and selves in interactional practice. We consider two examples, one taken from an Israeli radio call-in program and the other an American tutoring session. Both interactions follow a similar pattern with the caller and student encountering what appears to be a negative construal of their self, to which both respond with unusual interactional moves. In the radio call-in, during a discussion of the corruption of the government, the caller turns the conversation to the notion of “buying a wife.” In the tutoring session, during the tutor’s mini-lecture on the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the student takes out her mathematics notebook and starts working on math problems. In the discussion of these peculiar interactional moves, we consider the motivations, justifications, and consequences of these interactional moves. In so doing, we suggest how a theory of discursive and interactional framing could augment theories about the social construction of self, including face-work theory. In addition, we describe how a theory of power and agency in interaction rely on and constitute moral worlds.

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