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shall not be carried forward into the analysis in subsequent chapters, and
should be taken here as an additional illustrative device to explicitly index
alignment practices in the presented data (6.1). Following this I shall move on to
demonstrate how both positive and negative alignments can be seen to occur in
close proximity within a single episode of sociable conversation (6.2). The aim
here will be to show that such practices occur in both English and German
sociable episodes, and that neither threatens the equilibric flow of talk but rather
is characteristic of its particular style. Following this I shall look specifically at
data which clearly indicate how ratification and support of positive and negative
claims are sustained by in both cultural milieu (6.3). 1 shall then move on to
demonstrate how positive and negative claims are not ratified or supported
(6.4). Next, I shall present instances of what I referred to as both positive and
negative threshold breaches along with varying collaborative attempts to restore
or maintain sociable equilibrium (6.5), before providing a summary of the
findings presented in the preceding sections (6.6).
Much of what is presented in this chapter shall be recast in the following
chapter. There however, I shall attempt to demonstrate how the findings
presented here, in order to be truly understood, require the identification and
explication of conversational selves. The work presented here therefore should
be regarded not only as evidencing the validity of the model set out in chapter
three, but also as pointing to conversational evidence which exposes to varying
degrees how sociable selves are manifest in and through conversational claims
made by participants in each milieu.
6.1 A Basic Notation System
Figure 6 represents an abridged version of the model of facework as
equilibrium advanced in Chapter 3.
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