2023/08/09 by Bogdana Humă, Jack B. Joyce, Geoffrey Raymond · 1 voice · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
paper · doi:10.1177/0261927x231185525
openalex publication_date 2023/08/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
In this introductory article to the special issue on Resistance in Talk-in-Interaction, we review the vast body of research that has respecified resistance by investigating it as and when it occurs in real-life encounters. Using methodological approaches such as ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and discursive psychology, studies of resistance “in the wild” treat social interaction as a sequentially organized, joint enterprise. As a result, resistance emerges as the alternative to cooperation and therefore, on each occasion, resistant actions are designed to deal with the sequential and moral accountabilities that arise from the specifics of the situation. By documenting the wide array of linguistic, prosodic, sequential, and embodied resources that individuals use to resist the requirements set by interlocutors’ prior turns, this article provides the first comprehensive overview of existing research on resistance as an interactional accomplishment.