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Should police negotiators ask to "talk" or "speak" to persons in crisis? Word selection and overcoming resistance to dialogue proposals

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posted on 2019-11-19, 11:41 authored by Rein Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe
This paper explores whether and how word selection makes some proposals easier to resist than others. Fourteen cases (31 hours) of UK-based police crisis negotiation were analysed exploring (i) how negotiators use the verbs talk or speak when proposing ‘dialogue’, and (ii) to what extent the strength of persons in crisis’ resistance towards the proposals may be attributed to this word selection. We found that persons in crisis were more likely to overtly reject proposals formulated with talk compared to speak. And while negotiators used both talk/speak when proposing dialogue, negotiators and persons in crisis associated talk with more evaluative stances towards dialogue compared to speak. This paper has implications for the study of word selection in interaction and for crisis negotiation and other professions where ‘talk’ is promoted as the solution.

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School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Communication and Media

Published in

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Volume

53

Issue

3

Pages

324 - 340

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research on Language and Social Interaction on 11 August 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08351813.2020.1785770.

Acceptance date

2019-11-18

Publication date

2020-08-11

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

0835-1813

eISSN

1532-7973

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Rein Sikveland. Deposit date: 18 November 2019

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