Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings

This thesis examines how disagreements and doubts in communication are managed in institutional, multiparty talk in interaction regarding management of water related issues. Using a theory of conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974), I analyze ways disagreements and doubts in co...

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Autor principal: Viio Löfberg, Johanna
Formato: Second cycle, A2E
Lenguaje:sueco
Inglés
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15968/
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description This thesis examines how disagreements and doubts in communication are managed in institutional, multiparty talk in interaction regarding management of water related issues. Using a theory of conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974), I analyze ways disagreements and doubts in communication are managed and understood at six water management meetings. At the observed meetings, the frameworks of a new EU financed water management project are being discussed. The actors involved are officials from Municipalities, County Administration Boards and Water Councils, and researchers. I will encounter different ways disagreements and doubts in communication are managed at these meetings through concessive, e.g. “yes, but…” exchanges, laughter, tactful blindness and stand-offs by postpone the management of the disagreement to another, unspecified, time point in the future. At the meetings, the concessive approach creates both misunderstandings and solves disagreements through repeated turn-takings. I hope this thesis will give interested individuals a better understanding of institutional, multiparty talk in interaction regarding water related issues.
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spelling RepoSLU159682020-09-04T01:00:18Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15968/ Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings Viio Löfberg, Johanna Nature conservation and land resources This thesis examines how disagreements and doubts in communication are managed in institutional, multiparty talk in interaction regarding management of water related issues. Using a theory of conversation analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson, 1974), I analyze ways disagreements and doubts in communication are managed and understood at six water management meetings. At the observed meetings, the frameworks of a new EU financed water management project are being discussed. The actors involved are officials from Municipalities, County Administration Boards and Water Councils, and researchers. I will encounter different ways disagreements and doubts in communication are managed at these meetings through concessive, e.g. “yes, but…” exchanges, laughter, tactful blindness and stand-offs by postpone the management of the disagreement to another, unspecified, time point in the future. At the meetings, the concessive approach creates both misunderstandings and solves disagreements through repeated turn-takings. I hope this thesis will give interested individuals a better understanding of institutional, multiparty talk in interaction regarding water related issues. 2020-08-18 Second cycle, A2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15968/11/viio_lofberg_j_200818.pdf Viio Löfberg, Johanna, 2020. Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings. Second cycle, A2E. Uppsala: (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/OID-595.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-500136 eng
spellingShingle Nature conservation and land resources
Viio Löfberg, Johanna
Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title_full Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title_fullStr Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title_full_unstemmed Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title_short Dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
title_sort dealing with disagreements at water management meetings
topic Nature conservation and land resources
url https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15968/
https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/15968/