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““Wait, what are your pronouns, sorry?”: Conversation analysis of pronoun requests in comedians’ crowd work on TikTok”, Katie Slemp, York University, Canada
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Comedians on TikTok frequently show videos of their crowd work, where they ask questions to the attendees. While this is not part of their structured stand-up, it allows for spontaneous interaction (although the videos might be edited, censored, and/or captioned on TikTok), which may contain ‘trouble sources’ and opportunities for linguistic repair (e.g., Kitzinger, 2012). In the video from Zelnick (2023), there is seemingly a ‘subject-side’ (e.g., Stokoe, 2011) concern of being gender-aware, or to use Zelnick’s word, an “ally,” seen in the text over the video, such as “throwing my water bottle out of poor allyship” (Zelnick, 2023, 1:27).
1 Lucas: Are you, (um:) goth? Is that correct? (.)
2 Did you have to come out? Like, how did you know?
3 Raven: My parents named me Raven and I just like leaned into it.
11 Lucas: You know what is annoying about your mom? = If she doesn’t want you
12 to be trans why the fuck did she give you a sick trans name? hhh
13 (.) My apologies madame
14 Raven: It’s the other way.
15 Lucas: (.) Wait? What are your pronouns, sorry?
16 Raven: He/him.
17 Lucas: He/him. FU::CK! NO::::::!
In this example of other-initiated repair, which is less preferable than self-initiated (Brown & Levinson, 1987), Zelnick responds by shouting profanity, upset that his “allyship” has been challenged. This marked repair, where the speaker includes a repair solution and an apology, provides overt clarity with a correct category. It is interesting that the initial questions (lines 1-2) are similar to a pronoun request, but the pronoun request occurs much later in the interaction (line 15), as part of the repair. The gender category of the participant takes lower precedence than an aesthetic categorization, and the investigation of pronoun requests from the stage provides insight into conversation analysis involving humor, and repair in response to challenged allyship.
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