Zahraa Muhsin Afrajy, Dr. Mahmud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh & Dr. Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
This study aims to explore the use of turn-taking strategies in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida in order to demonstrate this Shavian play’s feminist notions. To do so, it will rely on the framework of turn management described by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974) as one of the most fundamental instruments in conversation which has also a close association with power. According to Sacks et al (1974), all conversation is organized into turns, and these turns form the basic analytic unit in conversation analysis (Carter and Simpson, 1989). The significance of this framework in this study is that Shaw’s feminist ideas were greatly reflected in his plays and thus, turn-taking analysis of his plays can show the way he tried to attribute more power to his female protagonists. In particular, different ways in which these strategies are employed by the characters Candida and her husband demonstrate the conflict between them as they try hard to gain power in the form of interactional control.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
