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    Discourse as Social Interaction Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction Volume 2 edited by Teun A. van Dijk 8 SAGE Publications London * Thousnd a * New Delhi 230 Discouse as Social teraction BREA 00 Sc fe tl ei freA, Ane ‘Geman Yeon! Newark CX pp Be TAG tw wn of wo Se 5 ‘wg DTA. (99 Dane it, Det nd Sty 60) 20- "el, 97 Mra one ogy of oe Cn, MA: Ha ‘cai wn Patty Se ep Aa Po nae ‘wl IG he gi gm of ri Dc nd Sc 2 Winn, (955) Pnepi sina GEM. Ante Ox as WEE eo, a ny Sa a Sa car me SCE eran nnn ge en Speen ere 9 Discourse and Culture Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka Discourse and Caltre Stator In diferent societies people not only peak isnt languages and dale they se thom in radally lve was Ip sme sods, nomal ‘conversations brisle with dsgresnent,Wices ae raised, emotions art ‘onpieuonsly vented In other, peopl taionly avoid contention, speak inmd and even tones, and guard agaist any expmue ofthe inner ‘sve. In some parts of he word i i consiered ery bad fo speak when ‘nober person ie aig, we oes ths san expected pt of 2 co- Sonversatioalit' work Un some etre i de rue fo oko and tater sbicensiy with some people but to go though be not ying = Single word to ober ‘Beosinng aod explaining such caltrespecic ways of speaking ithe tale couse and elt’ ses, If task whieh can be approaied fiom many diferent direction, wing many diflrnt methods, but most ‘Solr agree that i goes beyond merely describing speech pattern [haviour tems, The preter challenge Sto sow the Hake between ‘parclar ways of speaking and the cule ofthe people nvlved. To do {hs of cous, we have toe able oextaish herent ciara vases and pres Indepeodendy of the speech patterns theme” Sich idence can come frm may soureh ining surveys OF Ineviews Shout atitdes, observations of chi-aising practices, the proverbs and Common syinge of the cater, semantic says of cla Ley words hi wider cultural asaya "Ati al crosrctral esearch, the overiing methodlopc! problem is etaooontre bas that he danger that our undestandig of the scours practic of other alter wil be diored if we view tem through the prism of ovr om etre pce pacts aod concep Thee isa ped to find univer, anguagendepenent perspective on down actor td on eltual wales a this chapter we et survey varity fillet approaches fo culture sd course ste, the ake «cst look at cultural aspects of course in fv unrelated eltres Uspanes, Maly, Pa, Yanan, EN. Th thir way, wecaa draw out some ofthe ain dimensions of rosea ‘ation in done m2 Discourse a8 Socal eration ‘Aw Overview ofthe Fld “This metiondetcrites lerent approaches to dacous ang alte sta, suggeiag at ey can be itgated wile the ‘ctrl spt ame ‘work which hase roots crosruiral semantics The Edaoeraphy of Communication ‘The mot infenial aproac to dicours and clue studies is known as the ethnography of cmmniation Iwas founded by Del Hynes (1962) and was further developed by him, John Gumperz, and oter in the 19708 (Gurnpere and. Hymes, 1986, fst published 197% Bauman and Shere, 1074). This was a ime when ioguste thorsing was dominated by CChomky'sconeepts of pammar and of linguist competes, notions focused on the srctral aspects of language rater tha on Ianguage in te. Hynes enphasoed that to be a open speaker call for Bch Imore than grammatical knowlege. It means Knowing how To speak in faltraly appropriate ways fo dierent people aboot diferent things in iret stings. He cise the tem ‘ommunicave competency’ 10 take in llth things slong withthe knowedge of langage oct ee ‘Blun-Kua, Chapter 2 this volune) [Ar a may of dying conmuniave competent, Hymes mggetd research shoud focut on what he calle the "speech events of dierent fale, Thse are eutrally recogni activin involving speck for lnsance, in Eaglsh gossip wasn, a semon, ab intro, or «co taminaion in cour. Actually, activites lke thse don't merely vale ‘peaking, but are conse by speaking in appropiate nap ad tgs {0 certain Lids of people. Hymes reasoned that part of bats a cull fempetent speaker is undestaning the speech events recognize by that full, and be laid out a framework of he dimensions of «communicate vent iis called the SPEAKING fiemework esas fhe letersin tht Stord can he ed ata mnemonic; but note that the componente dos Tolow in order of taporance, seting and cee (where and when dost happes) parttpant (ho i tking pat) fds (hat d the parcpants want 0 ace?) Sc sequence (what aid and one) ey (aha is the emotional! tone, for example serous, sorowfl lige heared?) Instrumentals (what are the ‘chanel’, for example verb Strie, andthe soe, or example nnguen, speach ss?) 1 ora of ntracton and ntpreton (Why shoud people act ike ‘tign gene (ht ind of spose event) Discourse and Calire 233 "thaographes of communication have documeote he patesing of pach iets ina wide range of elterer. Their favoured methods of ating data fre patipan observation and conaulation with rate qeakes Often they" anoversking difleener from European norms For eas mong the Wolf of Wet Alta (vine 197) exchanging eretings (ye oF dhammant) is a highly statues route. Bebid the forme Sstations, the pring of God, the quesions and answers about the Whreabous tad health of famly members, there are compet ula ‘sumptions about oil rank and appeopatstebaviur between unequal ‘Avcltral outsider would ever reali i ba each. reving exchange {stables the rele rankings of th parcpants. Axx Wolo prover ptt Te "When two persons pet each othe, ove has share, he ker Bas lor” ‘Among te Apache (Basso, I97D, peng behaviour takes a raicaly

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