An appraisal of pragmatic elicitation techniques for the social psychological study of talk

The focus of the paper is appropriateness pragmatic elicitation techniques for generating talk to be used in analyses and social structure. In best (i) data are generated situations which researchers can manipulate variables testing hypotheses, (ii) speakers freely spontaneously without awareness that their object study. This claim was tested an examination hypothesis more facework will occur refusals a High versus Low status requester. Requester manipulated Oral Written Discourse Completion, Role Play, Experimental technique. Support found only Play conditions. Next, above four conditions were compared Naturally-occurring refusals. At levels acts by accomplished internal structure head act, DC produced anomalous non-representative technique very similar Natural refusals, though tended somewhat repetitive long-winded. It concluded preferred