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The focus of this chapter is the relation of feelings to community. Inspired by Knight (2008, 2010, 2013), the idea that belonging involves enacting bonds is explored, with a bond defined as a shared ‘attitude plus ideation’ coupling. This means that looking at how couplings are negotiated as bonds is crucial for understanding the reintegrative practice of conferencing. Accordingly, the chapter carefully considers the interaction of language and body language as far as negotiating bonds are concerned. This in turn raises the question of how to address the communities engendered by these bonding processes. Based on the work of Tann, the chapter then illustrates the operation of categorization, collectivization and spatialization devices in conferencing, and attends to the use of vocatives to flag relevant communities of feeling.
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The attitude in this example is classified as hybrid since ‘disappointed’ inscribes both affect and judgement—the father is sad (affect) about what the YP did wrong (judgement).
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For examples in which the attitude is invoked rather than inscribed, we have made explicit the kind of feeling involved in the coupling.
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Zappavigna, M., Martin, J. (2018). Negotiating Feeling: The Role of Body Language. In: Discourse and Diversionary Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_5
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