Publication at Faculty of Education |
2020
Abstract
The proposed paper attempts to contribute to the debate on the interpretation of meaning-making and identity construction as intertextual phenomena. Adopting the perspective of discourse analysis, relevant extracts from a questionnaire on attitudes to accents are examined by applying the theories of framing (Bateson, 1972; Goffman, 1974; Tannen & Wallat, 1987) and positioning (Davies & Harré, 1990), also exploring the concept of the stance triangle (Du Bois, 2007).
The study argues that the dynamics of a hierarchical interaction are more reliably revealed when focusing on authentic discursive presentations of self rather than adhering to ritualised interactional patterns.