Old wine in new bottles. The case of the adjacency-pair framework revisited

This study reports on the preliminary stages of a project concerned with presenting a systematic framework for annotating and analysing film dialogue which blends corpus annotation with adjacency pair theory (Schegloff, Sacks 1973). The adjacency pair model, which consists of closed sets of pairs, is applied to a searchable online corpus in which all the episodes of the U.S. medical drama House M.D. are transcribed and divided into scenes, the basic search unit. The article describes the modifications and adjustments to the original adjacency-pair model in order to accommodate the highly specialized dialogue of medical settings not envisaged by Schegloff and Sacks (1973) and the different interpersonal relationships between the characters, as well as the complex intersemiotic interactions characterizing TV film series.

本研究报告了某项目的初步推进阶段，该项目旨在搭建一套用于影视对话标注与分析的系统框架，该框架将语料库标注（corpus annotation）与相邻对理论（adjacency pair theory，谢格洛夫（Schegloff）、萨克斯（Sacks），1973）相结合。该相邻对模型由封闭的配对集合构成，被应用于一个可检索的在线语料库中；该语料库收录了美国医疗剧《豪斯医生》（House M.D.）的全部剧集内容，并被拆解为场景作为基础检索单元。本文阐述了对原始相邻对模型的修订与调整，以适配谢格洛夫与萨克斯（1973）未曾设想的医疗场景中高度专业化的对话、角色间各异的人际关系，以及电视连续剧所特有的复杂符际互动（intersemiotic interactions）。