Fluid Styles: Logogenesis of Attitudinal Positioning
摘要
This chapter and Chap. 7 move to examine the disputants’ attitudinal disposition construction from a dynamic perspective. They discuss the stability/fluidity of the disputants’ evaluative meaning-making across an unfolding timeframe. This logogenetic analysis aims to elucidate the gradual building up of conflict style within a multiparty adversarial interaction. Specifically, this chapter reports findings that emerge when the analysis focuses on the disputants’ attitudinal positioning in the whole mediation episode. The two sub-lines of inquiry include: (1) Did the disputants utilise the same set of attitude-associated resources across different mediation stages? (2) When interacting with different addressees? Fundamentally, this dynamic perspective treats the disputants’ construal of attitudinal disposition as an emergent, evolving process rather than a static collection of linguistic choices.