Extreme-Case Formulations

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dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-09T12:12:33Z
dc.date.available2015-06-09T12:12:33Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractExtreme case formulations (ECFs) are semantically extreme formulations that invoke the maximal or minimal properties of events or objects, such as “everyone,” “nobody,” “always,” “never,” “completely,” “nothing,” and so on. This entry reviews seminal work on ECFs, identifying their key features and interactional uses. These include their uses in defending against or countering challenges to the legitimacy of complaints, accusations, justifications and defenses; in proposing the objective (rather than circumstantial) nature of a phenomenon; in proposing that some behavior is right or wrong by virtue of being widespread; and in producing designedly non-literal (and thus not accountably accurate) descriptions that display various kinds of investment on the part of speaker, and can also be used in actions such as joking, teasing and irony. In addition, the entry describes some of the applied interactional research in which ECFs have been shown to be an important resource for participants, and thus for analysts.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationWhitehead, K. A. (2015). Extreme case formulations. In Tracy, K., Ilie, C., & Sandel, T. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (pp. 579-584). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118611463en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn9781118611463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/17959
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWileyen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectAgreementen_ZA
dc.subjectDisagrement
dc.subjectArgument discourse
dc.subjectConversation analysis
dc.subjectDiscursive psychology
dc.subjectFormulations
dc.titleExtreme-Case Formulationsen_ZA
dc.typeBook chapteren_ZA
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