Stance Taking and Positioning: Construction of Self in Marriage Programs

Year 2019, Volume: 16 Issue: 1, 1 - 20, 15.01.2019

Emel Kökpınar Kaya , Zafer Uzun , Demet Ulusoy

Abstract

The present study
depends on the instant and dialogic identity construction processes in everyday
talk and their realisations in marriage programs. These programs offer the
participants and their spouse candidates a context in which they can create
their selves and construct these selves instantly and mutually in face-to-face
interaction. In this frame, our study aims to demonstrate how the participants
in marriage programs construct their selves in accordance with the context and
the candidate in their mutual interactions. The data leads to the study comprises
of the conversation segments taken from the 213 episodes of a program, “Esra
Erol’la” which had been broadcasted in day time between the dates of 29 August
2016 and 23 June 2017 (Season 2). The extracts presented in the study include
two conversational segments which are identified through the analysis of the
213 episodes and purposive sampling. In the axis of the aim of study, these
conversation segments which show the acts of self negotiations of the
participants have been explored in terms of stance-taking
proposed by Du Bois (2007) and Positioning Theory introduced by Davies and Harré (1990; 2003). Thus, the linguistic
acts for ‘self negotiations’ of the participants have been discussed through
the three dimensional models that these theories had proposed and a theoretical
insight over the instances of intersections of these two theoretical frameworks
which bring an understanding for the instant and dialogic construction of identity
have been suggested.

Keywords

Stance-taking, positioning, identity, interaction, marriage programs

Duruş-Alma ve Konumlandırma: Evlilik Programlarında Benliğin Sunumu

Abstract

Bu çalışma günlük konuşmalarda
ortaya çıkan anlık ve söyleşimsel kimlik inşa süreçlerine ve bu süreçlerin
evlilik programlarındaki görünümlerine dayanmaktadır. Evlilik programları,
katılımcılara eş adayları ile yüz yüze etkileşimde bulunarak benliklerini
ortaya koyma ve benliklerini karşılıklı ve anlık olarak yapılandırma konusunda
bir ortam sunmaktadırlar. Bu bağlamda çalışmamız, evlilik programlarındaki
katılımcıların karşılıklı konuşmaları sırasında konuşma bağlamına ve
karşısındaki adaya göre benliklerini nasıl inşa ettiklerini göstermeyi
amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmaya kaynaklık eden veriler Türkiye
televizyonlarında gündüz kuşağında yayınlanan “Esra Erol’la” adlı programın 29
Ağustos 2016 ve 23 Haziran 2017 (2. sezon) tarihleri arasında yayınlanmış olan
213 bölümünden oluşmaktadır. Çalışmada sunulan örnekler bu 213 bölümün
incelenmesi çerçevesinde araçsal örneklem ile belirlenmiş iki konuşma kesitini
kapsamaktadır.  Çalışmanın amacı ekseninde, katılımcıların benlik
pazarlıklarına dair eylemleri işaretleyen bu konuşma kesitleri Du Bois (2007) tarafından ortaya
konulan Duruş-alma ve Davies ve Harré
(1990; 2003) tarafından temelleri atılan Konumlandırma
Kuramı (İng. Positioning Theory) üzerinden incelenmiştir. Böylelikle
katılımcıların ‘benlik pazarlıklarına’ dair dilsel eylemler bu kuramların
ortaya koyduğu üç boyutlu kavram modelleri üzerinden tartışılmış ve anlık ve
söyleşimsel kimlik inşasına bir bakış getiren bu iki kavramsal çerçevenin
kesişim noktalarına dair örneklendirmeler üzerinden kuramsal bir anlayış
sunulmaya çalışılmıştır.

Keywords

Duruş-alma, konumlandırma, kimlik, etkileşim, evlilik programları

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