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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
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