Thanks for this next round of information on hedges! My student has been interviewing people about how they perceive themselves. The context is an audio recorded interview about personal topics. So turn taking is not so relevant (I don't think). The interviewee has the floor. What the student has noticed is that some statements are delivered very directly and easily, while in other cases, the interviewee searches for words, hesitates, etc. Is there rigorous analysis of what such hesitations might mean? Or any pointers on how to interpret repeated words, etc. For example, the interviewee might say, "I, I, I am different online [in various ways]. I think the issue is more one of articulating less thought out commentary. I know there are analyses that suggest hesitations may indicate shading the truth (as the interviewee sees it), etc. I don't remember where I've seen those. Again, thanks so much for the input. Any specific articles that get at these issues would be appreciated. Best wishes, --- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/ On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Davis, Boyd wrote:
A PS on hedges -- is the interest in written text or spoken text or e-text? there will be some methodological differences concerning the analysis for each. Ken Hyland, for example, has some extremely interesting discussions of hedging in written text. There is, as this discussion suggests, more controversy in how to interpret hedges in spoken, transcribed, and electronic text. More recently, several of us have been considering hedges to be part of stance analysis. Boyd Davis _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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