Responses to advice-seeking on Reddit that do not give advice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7322239
AutoresHeidi Vepsäläinen (0000-0002-0907-5725, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume191
Páginas143-155
Data de publicação2022-02-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0378-2166 • E-ISSN: 1879-1387
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.pragma.2022.01.025
OpenAlexW4214762353
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas33

Previous studies have observed that asynchronous online interaction relies on sequence organization in the same way as spoken interaction, but that its sequential implicativeness might sometimes become looser. This means that advice-seeking may be followed by something other than advice, without it being treated as problematic. This study in-vestigates such instances on Reddit, utilizing the Conversation Analytic concepts of affiliative stance and action alignment. The analysis led to two major observations. First, based on the affiliative stance, there are three ways of reacting to an advice-seeking post: accepting, negotiating, and denying the validity of the advice-seeking. Second, most re-sponses that did not align with the action did align with the overall activity or another action made relevant by the preceding message. Based on the analysis, this article offers a system for classifying responses to advice-seeking that do not give advice. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Action (physics · Advice (programming · Asynchronous communication · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Negotiation · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology