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Notes to Chapter 7 1 This predilection for narrative as the basis for self presentation is also reflected in stand up comic routines, where the comic may begin an account with 'a funny thing happened to me on the way here tonight'to go on to proffer a humorous narrating / narrated self. From my experience, this type of comic devise occurs much less so in German stand up comic routines, which tends to be more observational or explicitly 'goonish'. 2 Strictly speaking, since re-unification, the terms East- and West-German have been obsolete. However, there is still today a popular understanding of these categories which filters into everyday discourse and forms a salient basis for national identity. 234
CHAPTER 8 ALIGNING SELVES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF 8.0 Introduction SOCIABILITY In Chapter 61 drew on conversational data to illustrate both positive and negative alignment possibilities in sociable conversation. Following this, In Chapter 7,1 identified certain sociable selves regularly mobilised in sociable conversation by English and German conversational ists in their respective settings. Here I want to essentially put the two together - the notion of conversational alignment and the conceptual isation of the conversational self - to show how facework in sociable conversation can be demonstrated to be contingent upon the mobilisation and alignment of sociable selves. I shall begin this chapter by briefly consolidating comments made in the previous two chapters about conversational alignment and sociable selves. I shall also draw on the second of the two conceptual i sati ons of the self guiding this study - that of the self-construal - to illustrate the positive and negative status of the self in terms of what I shall refer to as the conversational construal (8.1). 1 shall then move on to consider specific conversational excerpts drawn from sociable episodes in both milieu, focusing in each case on one of the topic type categories identified in Chapter 5, that is, an example of a reminiscence (excerpt 'Cookie's Party), a reportable (excerpt'Tommy Fields), an agoniser (excerpt 'Internationale Arbeitslosigkeit' ['International Unemployment'], and a biographical (excerpt 'Studieren als Hobby' [Studying as a Hobby]) (8.2). Following this central analytical section, I shall summarise and discuss the findings presented (8.3), before moving on to conclude the chapter (8.4). The emphasis of this chapter will be on the comparative analysis of 235
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Notes to Chapter 7<br />
1 This predilection for narrative as the basis for self presentation is also reflected in stand up<br />
comic routines, where the comic may begin an account with 'a funny thing happened to me on<br />
the way here tonight'to go on to pr<strong>of</strong>fer a humorous narrating / narrated self. From my<br />
experience, this type <strong>of</strong> comic devise occurs much less so in German stand up comic routines,<br />
which tends to be more observational or explicitly 'goonish'.<br />
2 Strictly speaking, since re-unification, the terms East- and West-German have been obsolete.<br />
However, there is still today a popular understanding <strong>of</strong> these categories which filters into<br />
everyday discourse and forms a salient basis for national identity.<br />
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