I didn't say that!: Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

Mathilde Janier; Chris Reed

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I didn't say that! Uses of SAY in mediation discourse

Mathilde Janier (Lead / Corresponding author), Chris Reed (Supervisor)

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Abstract

While several taxonomies of meta-discourse exist, none clearly explains speakers’ strategies in mediation. Mediators, however, seem to rely a lot on meta-discourse to manage the argument while preserving their neutrality. This article proposes corpus analyses to detect mediation participants’ discourse strategies and highlight the role and function of a meta-discourse element – the verb ‘to say’. This paper is a first step towards the elaboration of a taxonomy for the analysis of argumentative meta-discourse, and brings new insights in meta-discourse in argumentative dialogues and mediation discourse in general.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	619-647
Number of pages	49
Journal	Discourse Studies
Volume	19
Issue number	6
Early online date	18 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445617715180
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

Keywords

argumentative discourse
dispute mediation
discourse analysis
Inference Anchoring Theory
meta-discourse

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