Stance Taking and Positioning: Construction of Self in Marriage Programs
Journal Title: Mersin Üniversitesi Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi - Year 2019, Vol 16, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study depends on the instant and dialogic identity construction processes in everyday talk and their realisations in marriage programs. These programs offer the participants and their spouse candidates a context in which they can create their selves and construct these selves instantly and mutually in face-to-face interaction. In this frame, our study aims to demonstrate how the participants in marriage programs construct their selves in accordance with the context and the candidate in their mutual interactions. The data leads to the study comprises of the conversation segments taken from the 213 episodes of a program, “Esra Erol’la” which had been broadcasted in day time between the dates of 29 August 2016 and 23 June 2017 (Season 2). The extracts presented in the study include two conversational segments which are identified through the analysis of the 213 episodes and purposive sampling. In the axis of the aim of study, these conversation segments which show the acts of self negotiations of the participants have been explored in terms of stance-taking proposed by Du Bois (2007) and Positioning Theory introduced by Davies and Harré (1990; 2003). Thus, the linguistic acts for ‘self negotiations’ of the participants have been discussed through the three dimensional models that these theories had proposed and a theoretical insight over the instances of intersections of these two theoretical frameworks which bring an understanding for the instant and dialogic construction of identity have been suggested.
Authors and Affiliations
Emel Kökpınar Kaya, Zafer Uzun, Demet Ulusoy
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