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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Excerpt 6.14 'Nickin' Jim's Bike' LP: KP: [Sneakin' out of our houses (. ) at like one o'clock in the momin'= RP: LP: RP: =It was a really good one that= =When our parents had gone to [bed [God it were some years ago that weren't it ((20 second schism as LP loudly continues her tale of 'stealing mototrbikes' and KP/RP continue on the hedge-ho ppi n' therne)) KP: Yeah we used to [nick e::: r (. ) we used (1) to nick dustcaps EP: [Yeah (0.5) LP: Dustcaps 0 KP: Dustcaps yeah (0.5) remember dustcaps off ca[rs RP: [Yea:: h=that's right= KP: =Whistlin'with 'ern like that (0.5) RP: Yeah=yeah 0 KP: You used to put 'em in your fingers there and that and jus- (0.5) LP: I REMEMBER THE Fl:: RST motorbike I ever stole was (1) not on me own obviously (. ) >we used to climb out of ou:: r< bedrooms or-.: () leave our houses at one o'clock in the mornin'=>a big gang of us meet up< (1) and EP: we go Moo: rfield (. ) f- for some rea: son everybody on Moorfield had a motorbike (. ) or it so=so it seemed (0.5) and ginch a motorbike and then go down the Tame valley fidin'motorbi(h)kes ha[haha [Bloody hell fire= LP: EP: =(H)at li(h)ke tw(h)o o'clock in the mo: min you [know [My God= LP: =Really senseless things to do (. ) yeah EP: Hm= KP: =1 remember nickin'Jed's motorbike once (0.5) RP: Did you= KP: =Yeah (0.5) RP: When was that=l don't remember that= KP: =>Oh it was< yea: rs ago (0.5) >he was he was< stayin'at, e:: r (1) Andy's when [he was RP: [Was this (. ) >when he was down from Scotland on his own sort of thing< (. ) yeah 0 KP: He must have been=he was livin=he was livin with Claire= RP: =Yeah= KP: =At Andy's 0 RP: Yeah (right) (0.5) KP: And e:: r (0.5) we nicked=his motorbike were shit weren't lt=he used to start it up with a screwdriver (0.5) and me and Andy nicked it and we went on't pa:: rk with it 17A
What happens here is that KIP proffers a similar but more acceptable version of LP's. The bike stolen by KIP and friend in the first instance belonged to a friend. Second, was only taken as a joke - it was not serious theft but rather fabricated theft (Cf. Goffman 1974). What this and the preceding uniqueness claims are based on is petty theft (dust caps rather than the whole vehicle) or pseudo theft ('temporarily' stealing Jim's bike only to return it later that night without him being any the wiser). This in effect accommodates the stealing of motorbikes as an acceptable activity within the boundaries of positive social values; i. e. it keys the action of stealing motorbikes from theft (potentially non-equilibric) to one of 'childhood naughtiness' (already established grounds for solidarity). This remedial works by KID and RP (who ratifies the claim by audientially aligning - see Chapter 7) works to restore a momentarily threatened sociable equilibrium. As German conversational ists display a preference for the use of objective discussion or agonism for the claiming of uniqueness (see 3.2), it is here that positive threshold breaches tend to occur, largely as a result of incommensurably uniqueness. This manifests itself in agonism becoming 'too heated', talk where participants have irresolvably 'locked horns', or one participant being conversationally 'beaten into the ground', to the point where he / she can no longer defend him I herself and the talk grinds to a halt. For example, in the following German example, HB and KH have been talking extensively about cars over several minutes preceding the point at which we enter. The talk has become progressively schismed as each participants strengthens his own standpoint and seeks to weaken the others. Talk has in effect been drifting away from a sociable argument to a 'real' one (Cf Schiffrin 1984). Excerpt 6.15 Wo ist denn Peter? ' KH and 1-113 have been talking for several minutes on the topic of taking cars abroad. The talk has become increasingly schismed, as both KH and HB draw on largely factual evidence go support their propositions. Alongside this, the volume and pace of the talk has been increasing KH: Es ist schon vorgekommen daß (0.5) einige Ausländer 170
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Excerpt 6.14 'Nickin' Jim's Bike'<br />
LP:<br />
KP:<br />
[Sneakin' out <strong>of</strong> our houses (. ) at like one o'clock in the momin'=<br />
RP:<br />
LP:<br />
RP:<br />
=It was a really good one that=<br />
=When our parents had gone to [bed<br />
[God it were some years ago that weren't it<br />
((20 second schism as LP loudly continues her tale <strong>of</strong> 'stealing mototrbikes'<br />
and KP/RP continue on the hedge-ho ppi n' therne))<br />
KP: Yeah we used to [nick e::: r (. ) we used (1) to nick dustcaps<br />
EP:<br />
[Yeah<br />
(0.5)<br />
LP: Dustcaps<br />
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KP: Dustcaps yeah (0.5) remember dustcaps <strong>of</strong>f ca[rs<br />
RP:<br />
[Yea:: h=that's right=<br />
KP: =Whistlin'with 'ern like that<br />
(0.5)<br />
RP: Yeah=yeah<br />
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KP: You used to put 'em in your fingers there and that and jus-<br />
(0.5)<br />
LP: I REMEMBER THE Fl:: RST motorbike I ever stole was (1) not on me own<br />
obviously (. ) >we used to climb out <strong>of</strong> ou:: r< bedrooms or-.: () leave our<br />
houses at one o'clock in the mornin'=>a big gang <strong>of</strong> us meet up< (1) and<br />
EP:<br />
we go Moo: rfield (. ) f- for some rea: son everybody on Moorfield had a<br />
motorbike (. ) or it so=so it seemed (0.5) and ginch a motorbike and then go<br />
down the Tame valley fidin'motorbi(h)kes ha[haha<br />
[Bloody hell fire=<br />
LP:<br />
EP:<br />
=(H)at li(h)ke tw(h)o o'clock in the mo: min you [know<br />
[My God=<br />
LP: =Really senseless things to do (. ) yeah<br />
EP: Hm=<br />
KP: =1 remember nickin'Jed's motorbike once<br />
(0.5)<br />
RP: Did you=<br />
KP: =Yeah (0.5)<br />
RP: When was that=l don't remember that=<br />
KP: =>Oh it was< yea: rs ago (0.5) >he was he was< stayin'at, e:: r (1) Andy's<br />
when [he was<br />
RP: [Was this (. ) >when he was down from Scotland on his own sort <strong>of</strong><br />
thing< (. ) yeah<br />
0<br />
KP: He must have been=he was livin=he was livin with Claire=<br />
RP: =Yeah=<br />
KP: =At Andy's<br />
0<br />
RP: Yeah (right)<br />
(0.5)<br />
KP: And e:: r (0.5) we nicked=his motorbike were shit weren't lt=he used to start<br />
it up with a screwdriver (0.5) and me and Andy nicked it and we went on't<br />
pa:: rk with it<br />
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