Negotiating rejections: a socio-cultural analysis
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating rejections
T2 - a socio-cultural analysis
AU - Fetzer, Anita
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This paper argues for an investigation of intercultural communication from a sociocultural perspective where communicative action is firmly anchored in social practice and sociocultual context. The section on 'Rejections, denials and other non-acceptances', examines the linguistic representation of saying 'no' in a discursive framework. The results obtained are categorized in the interactive tripartite system of a minus-validity claim based on truth, appropriateness and sincerity. The section on the 'Reconstruction of culture', adapts ethnomethodological principles to the investigation of culture by making explicit the interdependencies between linguistic variation, communicative strategy and sociocultural competence. The final section, 'Intercultural communication revisited', presents the communicative act of a plus/minus-validity claim as a frame of reference which allows for an investigation of linguistic code, social practice and possible perlocutionary effects as regards the reconstruction of cultures and intercultures.
AB - This paper argues for an investigation of intercultural communication from a sociocultural perspective where communicative action is firmly anchored in social practice and sociocultual context. The section on 'Rejections, denials and other non-acceptances', examines the linguistic representation of saying 'no' in a discursive framework. The results obtained are categorized in the interactive tripartite system of a minus-validity claim based on truth, appropriateness and sincerity. The section on the 'Reconstruction of culture', adapts ethnomethodological principles to the investigation of culture by making explicit the interdependencies between linguistic variation, communicative strategy and sociocultural competence. The final section, 'Intercultural communication revisited', presents the communicative act of a plus/minus-validity claim as a frame of reference which allows for an investigation of linguistic code, social practice and possible perlocutionary effects as regards the reconstruction of cultures and intercultures.
KW - English
KW - Theology
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U2 - 10.1515/mult.2002.017
DO - 10.1515/mult.2002.017
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 21
SP - 399
EP - 422
JO - Multilingua
JF - Multilingua
SN - 0167-8507
IS - 4
ER -