Alexandra Gubina
Biographic Data
| ID | 1125830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Gubina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Gubina |
| SIGNATURE | GUBINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for the German Language |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0053-6257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Therapeutic change and the emergence of common ground over interactional history
This article explores the interactional history of talk about a topic that emerges as the patient’s key problem over a series of psychotherapy sessions. Drawing on a complete series of 25 video-recordings of a psychodynamic psychotherapy spanning over six months, we analyze how common ground between therapist and patient concerning the patient’s aging process develops. The study shows how common ground emerges step by step, yet remains largely op…
Action categorization in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
This introduction to the special issue on action categorization revisits the state of the art, discusses challenges and competing views, and considers future developments in the study of action in social interaction. After reviewing shortly speech act theory, (neo-)Gricean pragmatics, and conversation analysis as approaches to action categorization, it discusses the relationship between action formation and action ascription in interaction vs. th…
On the “next-turn proof procedure” in the analysis of social interaction
Recipients’ understanding of speakers’ actions typically becomes publicly available through their responses, making the next-turn proof procedure central for the analysis of social interaction. However, little is known about how to methodologically warrant the analysis of actions with minimal or no response. This is particularly evident in case of trouble formulations. We examine trouble formulations in the context of practical activities, produc…
Responding to new information with negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö in German talk-in-interaction
This conversation analytic and interactional linguistic study examines how the negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö (‘no’) are used in response to new information in mundane and institutional talk-in-interaction in spoken German. We analyze two functions of these responsive negative discourse particles: First, we examine how these particles serve to receipt information as new and display a stance toward it, e.g., an affiliative negative stanc…
Countering Prior Interactional Conduct with Responsive doch in German Talk-in-Interaction
This article explores the German response token doch, which, as earlier studies claim, rejects negatively polarized utterances and reaffirms the opposite. The study demonstrates that doch can be used in response to the Other’s conduct to mark a contrast to the Other’s understanding or push back against the Other’s challenging what the doch-speakers said before. When doch concerns the speaker’s own prior conduct, it indexes a “change-of-mind,” con…
Coding actions in social interaction
This paper deals with one object of coding that is particularly troublesome, the coding of actions. We argue that action-coding within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) necessarily leads to problems due to an inherent tension between criteria for good coding schemes and the properties of action in social interaction. While coding schemes require clear definitions of codes, their mutual exclusivity, irreversibility, comprehensiveness and…
Doing More than Confirming
While requests for confirmation (RfCs) make a yes/no-response relevant, recipients often produce more than a mere confirmation. Our paper explores expanded responses to RfCs in German talk-in-interaction. We focus on responses consisting of a confirmation and an additional TCU /action. Drawing on video data from mundane and institutional settings, we demonstrate how expanded responses are designed and fit the sequential environments in which they…
Request for confirmation sequences in German
In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative analysis of 200 RfCs and their responses in German conversations to highlight the relevant linguistic resources speakers of the language deployed to position themselves vis-à-vis a confirmable proposition. In German RfCs, modal particles and tags play an important …
Rejecting the validity of inferred attributions of incompetence in German talk-in-interaction
This paper deals with pragmatic inference from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In particular, we examine a specific variety of inferences – the attribution of incompetence which Self constructs on the basis of Other's prior action, hearable as positioning Self as incompetent (e.g., instructions, offers of assistance, advice); this attribution of incompetence concerns Self's execution of some practical task. This inference is indexed in …
When the Body Belies the Words
Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speakers initiate, or even complete the embodied action that is addressed by the turn before the recipient's response. We argue that through such embodied c…
What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaborati…
Positionally-sensitive action-ascription
Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying that the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing the German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you X? ) based on 82 instances from a large corpus of talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions to turns using the same format depend on various orders of context…
What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaborati…
Positionally-sensitive action-ascription
Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying that the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing the German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you X? ) based on 82 instances from a large corpus of talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions to turns using the same format depend on various orders of context…
When the Body Belies the Words
Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal relationships between verbal and embodied actions. We focus on uses of German darf/kann ich? (“may/can I?”) in which speakers initiate, or even complete the embodied action that is addressed by the turn before the recipient's response. We argue that through such embodied c…
What Do Newsmark-Type Responses Invite? The Response Space After German echt
This conversation analytic study examines responsive echt (“really”), which is commonly associated with “newsmarks,” in co-present German interaction. Across uses, echt-turns are a practice for topicalizing, however briefly, something in another participant’s just-prior turn. But this topicalization shapes the response space in systematically different ways: Echt-turns can be taken to (a) invite simple reconfirmation, (b) invite topical elaborati…
Positionally-sensitive action-ascription
Schegloff (1996) has argued that grammars are “positionally-sensitive”, implying that the situated use and understanding of linguistic formats depends on their sequential position. Analyzing the German format Kannst du X? (corresponding to English Can you X? ) based on 82 instances from a large corpus of talk-in-interaction (FOLK), this paper shows how different action-ascriptions to turns using the same format depend on various orders of context…
Doing More than Confirming
While requests for confirmation (RfCs) make a yes/no-response relevant, recipients often produce more than a mere confirmation. Our paper explores expanded responses to RfCs in German talk-in-interaction. We focus on responses consisting of a confirmation and an additional TCU /action. Drawing on video data from mundane and institutional settings, we demonstrate how expanded responses are designed and fit the sequential environments in which they…
Request for confirmation sequences in German
In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative analysis of 200 RfCs and their responses in German conversations to highlight the relevant linguistic resources speakers of the language deployed to position themselves vis-à-vis a confirmable proposition. In German RfCs, modal particles and tags play an important …
Rejecting the validity of inferred attributions of incompetence in German talk-in-interaction
This paper deals with pragmatic inference from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In particular, we examine a specific variety of inferences – the attribution of incompetence which Self constructs on the basis of Other's prior action, hearable as positioning Self as incompetent (e.g., instructions, offers of assistance, advice); this attribution of incompetence concerns Self's execution of some practical task. This inference is indexed in …
Responding to new information with negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö in German talk-in-interaction
This conversation analytic and interactional linguistic study examines how the negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö (‘no’) are used in response to new information in mundane and institutional talk-in-interaction in spoken German. We analyze two functions of these responsive negative discourse particles: First, we examine how these particles serve to receipt information as new and display a stance toward it, e.g., an affiliative negative stanc…
Countering Prior Interactional Conduct with Responsive doch in German Talk-in-Interaction
This article explores the German response token doch, which, as earlier studies claim, rejects negatively polarized utterances and reaffirms the opposite. The study demonstrates that doch can be used in response to the Other’s conduct to mark a contrast to the Other’s understanding or push back against the Other’s challenging what the doch-speakers said before. When doch concerns the speaker’s own prior conduct, it indexes a “change-of-mind,” con…
Coding actions in social interaction
This paper deals with one object of coding that is particularly troublesome, the coding of actions. We argue that action-coding within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) necessarily leads to problems due to an inherent tension between criteria for good coding schemes and the properties of action in social interaction. While coding schemes require clear definitions of codes, their mutual exclusivity, irreversibility, comprehensiveness and…
Therapeutic change and the emergence of common ground over interactional history
This article explores the interactional history of talk about a topic that emerges as the patient’s key problem over a series of psychotherapy sessions. Drawing on a complete series of 25 video-recordings of a psychodynamic psychotherapy spanning over six months, we analyze how common ground between therapist and patient concerning the patient’s aging process develops. The study shows how common ground emerges step by step, yet remains largely op…
Action categorization in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics
This introduction to the special issue on action categorization revisits the state of the art, discusses challenges and competing views, and considers future developments in the study of action in social interaction. After reviewing shortly speech act theory, (neo-)Gricean pragmatics, and conversation analysis as approaches to action categorization, it discusses the relationship between action formation and action ascription in interaction vs. th…
On the “next-turn proof procedure” in the analysis of social interaction
Recipients’ understanding of speakers’ actions typically becomes publicly available through their responses, making the next-turn proof procedure central for the analysis of social interaction. However, little is known about how to methodologically warrant the analysis of actions with minimal or no response. This is particularly evident in case of trouble formulations. We examine trouble formulations in the context of practical activities, produc…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · German (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)