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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (1) GB: That's the other part of the suburb (0.5) PB: Little Chica:: go= GB: =Hm:: (3) PB: YEAH=but when people say Westhagen then (0.5) they always compare it (1) with this other (1) part of the suburb you know (1.5) GB: Yeah and this part of the town is becoming really sgua: lid down there= SH: =>I find it unbelie: vable that they don't do [anything there eh= GB: [Yeah GB: =YEAH GB: The businesses are moving away [because the Russians are spreading SH: [YEAH::: out more and more=they [have their own [shops there (1) 1 don't [know how HB: [Hm:: [Yeah [Yeah=Yeah many shops they [have taken over [there HB: [You know [a HB: A Russian [shop GB: [And we don't do there any more at all that's all too foreian for me down there=l mean they speak all sorts of languages=but no German (0.5) you know-->What am I supposed to do there< Other topical resources for the mobilisation of agonised selves in my data included such things as dwindling pension funds and the ontological threats associated with being able to survive as a Rentner [Pensioner], any current political crisis, or world stability - topics which received little if any treatment in my English data set. As an English national, this routine mobilisation of agonised selves against Auslaenders was one of the first things that struck me about German sociable conversation. However, in line with the already established German tendency for objective discussion over affective expression, I soon came top realise that German conversational treatment of foreigners proceeded along the lines of discussion the problem rather than outright stigmatisation and discrimination. At moments during the playing out of German social episodes, participants explicitly signal agreement and solidarity over an issue which could very well and perhaps might have already been the resource for negative alignment. It is in these conversational environments that the confirmative self is mobilised. I mentioned above that the examining self is often mobilised as a 226
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 negative entity, aligned to, for example, the propositional correctness or clarity of a particular speakers claim. In effect, the confirmative self is the positive equivalent of the examining self. confirmative selves are mobilised commonly in conversational environments where some objective claims are being made - commonly through, for example, a Knowledgeable or demeaned self. Such selves are realised and evidenced conversationally most clearly in utterances such as 'ganz genau' ['completely correct'], 'stimmt' ['that's right] which pepper German sociable conversation. Confirmative selves are not restricted to isolated individual confirmative moves, but are often mobilised collectively over a series of turns as recognisable alignment phases. This joint and collective alignment of confirmative selves plays itself out as a common phase of German sociable conversation - and one prima facie contra to the findings outlined in the literature reviewed in Chapter 2- whereby participants engage in heightened expression of reciprocally confirmative solidarity, as in the following excerpt. Excerpt 7.16 'Das Stimmt' KN: "'rja: 0 (1) die Wirtin sagt teilweise die aus der-Ex-DDR (0.5) die stellen so=hohe Ansprü: [che EP: IJA=JA= HB: =JA=JA (0.5) (*ja*)=genau das: [haben wir Oda=auch. " KN: HB: [Wenn wir-wenn WIR Rü: ber kommen wir (0.5) wissen=>[na ja gut das ist da< ei: nfache:: r-- GB: =Hum:: [: KN: [Aber--die (0.5) GB: Ja=das stimmt= HB: =JA=JA GB: Nicht nur [im=im Urlaub KN: [Nicht ALLE aber--es gibt [so einige: GB: [überALL wo die -hinfahren [stellen die HB: [JA=JA Ans[prüche: KN: [Ja:: HB: Ja=ja= GB: =Was meinst du wo: hl= HB: =HM 227
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GB: That's the other part <strong>of</strong> the suburb<br />
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GB: =Hm::<br />
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PB: YEAH=but when people say Westhagen then (0.5) they always compare it<br />
(1) with this other (1) part <strong>of</strong> the suburb you know<br />
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GB: Yeah and this part <strong>of</strong> the town is becoming really sgua: lid down there=<br />
SH: =>I find it unbelie: vable that they don't do [anything there eh=<br />
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GB: The businesses are moving away [because the Russians are spreading<br />
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out more and more=they [have their own [shops there (1) 1 don't [know how<br />
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GB: [And we don't do there any more at all that's all too foreian for<br />
me down there=l mean they speak all sorts <strong>of</strong> languages=but no German<br />
(0.5) you know-->What am I supposed to do there<<br />
Other topical resources for the mobilisation <strong>of</strong> agonised selves in my<br />
data included such things as dwindling pension funds and the ontological<br />
threats associated with being able to survive as a Rentner [Pensioner], any<br />
current political crisis, or world stability - topics which received little if any<br />
treatment in my English data set.<br />
As an English national, this routine mobilisation <strong>of</strong> agonised selves<br />
against Auslaenders was one <strong>of</strong> the first things that struck me about German<br />
sociable conversation. However, in line with the already established German<br />
tendency for objective discussion over affective expression, I soon came top<br />
realise that German conversational treatment <strong>of</strong> foreigners proceeded along the<br />
lines <strong>of</strong> discussion the problem rather than outright stigmatisation and<br />
discrimination.<br />
At moments during the playing out <strong>of</strong> German social episodes,<br />
participants explicitly signal agreement and solidarity over an issue which could<br />
very well and perhaps might have already been the resource for negative<br />
alignment. It is in these conversational environments that the confirmative self is<br />
mobilised. I mentioned above that the examining self is <strong>of</strong>ten mobilised as a 226
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